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746 resentingrepresenting [sic], on one side one of the apostles, and on the other several saints. In these minute attempts having gained universal applause, she then gave a public proof of her genius, in Two Angels, which she finished in marble, for the front of the church of St. Petronius. A bust of Count Guido Pepoli was equally admired. The rules of perspective and architecture were not only familarfamiliar [sic] to her, but she is known to have sketched many designs in those arts; yet with all those talents, and unrivalled fame, Propertia was most unfortunate. In early life, she had been married without sympathy, and had fixed her affections on one whose heart was totally insensible. As her health was daily yielding to despair, she undertook a bas-relief of the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, which she lived just long enough to finish, and died young in 1530. It was at once a monument of her hopeless passion and admirable skill. . the death of his wife, her father resided at Ilchester, but soon after removed into the neighbourhood of Frome, in the same county, where he had an estate, and was highly respected. The pious and exemplary life of this good man seems to have had great effect on his daughter's mind, which was religiously inclined from her childhood.—In her Devout Exercises of the Heart, published by Dr. Watts, she says "I humbly hope I have a rightful claim; thou art my God, and the God