Properzia is from the Roman family name *Propertius*. **Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490-1530)** was the **Italian Renaissance sculptor** — **the first female sculptor known to history and the only woman among the artists profiled in Giorgio Vasari's *Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects* (1550)**. **Famous for her remarkable miniature sculptures carved on apricot and peach pits** including a Crucifixion with 22 figures. **Her marble panel of *Joseph and Potiphar's Wife* is at the Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna.**
Subject of the 2014 Bologna exhibition *Properzia de' Rossi: The First Woman Sculptor*.
Properzia reduces to two — the number of first female sculptor.