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Lavinia Fontana, Ritratto di Antonietta Gonsalvus (Portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus), 1595, Château du Blois, Blois, France

Rouillac.com: The Girl with the Hairy Face

[...] Young Antonietta Gonsalvus, aka Tognina Gonzales, went down in history thanks to her portrait painted around 1595 by Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana (Musée des Beaux-Arts, château de Blois, n°997.1.1). Like her father and most of her siblings, « Tognina » suffered from hypertrichosis, a genetic condition causing an abnormal amount of hair growth over the body. She was the daughter of Tenerife-born Pedro Gonzales, who as a ten-year old was offered to French King Henri II on the occasion of his 1547 coronation. Ownership of such a “wild man” was a source of prestige for the King, who gifted him a part of the Fontainebleau castle’s gardens and had him raised together with the children of his Court. Pedro, renamed Petrus Gonsalvus, wedded Catherine Raffelin after King Henri’s 1559 death. Their marriage may have inspired the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. After Catherine de Medici’s 1589 death, the Gonsalvus family and their seven children were sent to Italy where they were hosted by various noble families. The sheet with Italian writings held by Antonietta on this painting, similar to the one that can be seen on the portrait of her held in the collections of the Blois Castle, tells the story of her family: “Don Pietro, a savage discovered on the Canary Islands, was shipped to his Serene Highness Henri King of France and from there to his Excellency the Duke of Parma. I, Antonietta, was born from him and today I can be found at the Court of Dame Isabella Pallavicina, the Honorable Marquise of Soragna”. The Gonsalvuses journey from France to Italy is well known thanks to the scientific observations that were made at each stop. Merry Wiesner-Hanks remarkably chronicled it in her 2009 book "The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds" (Yale University Press Publisher). In Basel, physician Felix Platter examined two of the children and commissioned their portraits. Representing Maddalena Gonzales and one of her siblings, they were sent to Archduke Ferdinand II and hung in his castle of Ambras, the name of which was later given to the syndrome represented on these paintings. In 1594, Antonietta, who would have been about fifteen at the time, was examined in Bologna by Ulisse Aldrovandi, whose scientific notes would not be published until 1642 in the book "Monstrorum Historia". It was then that his friend, painter Lavinia Fontana, who had been trained by Sophonisba Anguissola, painted the portrait held in Blois. At the time, Fontana was collaborating with other male and female painters on Aldrovandi's forthcoming publishing project, of which 8,000 watercolors have been preserved. One of them is a portrait of a girl looking like Antonietta, who is depicted with the same flowers in her hair and the same brocade dress as on our painting. However, the inscription on this portrait reads: "A hairy woman of twenty whose head resembles that of a monkey, but who is not hairy on the rest of her body". An object of popular curiosity during her lifetime, either inspiring wild fear or mere defiance akin to the one felt towards an animal, at other times considered as precious enough to be offered as a gift, Antonietta is a little girl like no other in the history of painting. The emergence of this unknown canvas, painted by a female artist and representing a child who disappeared without a trace at the end of the 16th century in Italy, is all the more striking as it coincides with an exciting exhibition on�� hair (“Des cheveux et des Poils”) at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

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Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales, 1595, via Women’n Art

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PORTRAIT OF ANTONIETTA GONZALES (1595) by LAVINIA FONTANA

This strange portrait shows ANTONIETTA GONZALES, a young girl from the CANARY ISLANDS. She and her family, including her father, PETRUS GONZALES, all suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic disorder that causes excessive hair growth throughout the face and body.

At the time, Hypertrichosis was thought to be a sign from GOD (as opposed to a demon curse) or a scientific curiosity. As a result, ANTOINETTE and her family were welcomed in EUROPEAN courtrooms.

FONTANA sketches the girl, no more than ten years old, with a sweet, innocent smile, looking at the viewer lovingly as she holds a piece of paper up to her chest that tells a bit about her personal history.

ANTONIETTA and her family belonged to the court of Countess ISABELLA of SORAGNA, according to the historian MERRY WEISER-HANKS. This portrait shows FONTANA’S talent for conveying a sense of gentleness to her patrons, regardless of their appearance.

It is also a portrait of a high emotional involvement, according to historian ENRICO MARIO DAL POZZOLO, and shows a close relationship between the artist and the sitter. It may be that, since female artists were a rarity in their own right at that time, the sitters shared a sense of being “outsiders”.

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez [1595]

Artist: Lavinia Fontana

Antonietta Gonzalez (as well as her father, two sisters and other family members) had hypertrichosis (also commonly called ‘werewolf syndrome’), which is a rare genetic disorder which causes an abnormal amount of hair on the body. Antonietta’s father, Pedro (sometimes written as Pedrus) Gonzalez, was the first known person to be affected with this disorder. Given the rarity of the disease, it seems a little surprising that so many people within the Gonzalez family were affected by hypertrichosis. One writer noted that in terms of pathology, ‘the Gonzales sisters were one in a billion – all three of them.’

ref: Alberti’s Window

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales by Lavinia Fontana. 1595. 

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"Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez" // Lavinia Fontana . This is a portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez, painted by Lavinia Fontana in 1575. Antonietta Gonzalez suffered from hypertrichosis, which is also known as werewolf syndrome. Lavinia Fontana is regarded as the first woman artist working in the same sphere as her male counterparts. She’s also considered one of the first women to paint nudes. She accomplished so much, painted so beautifully and also had 11 children. (Gonzales and her family all were afflicted with hypertrichosis. They were studied and painted by other artists as well as studied by scientists and noblemen, as the genetic order was so rare.) . Laura Colors TAKES OVER Beautiful Bizarre Magazine socials #beautifulbizarremagazine #beautifulbizarre#artmagazine #laviniafontana #lauracolors#takeovermonday

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Elezioni Politiche 2022, guida al voto

Elezioni Politiche 2022, guida al voto Di Londra Notizie 24 La guida al voto delle Elezioni politiche 2022 per gli italiani all'estero, con le informazioni utili e le dichiarazioni di alcuni candidati. Elezioni Politiche 2022, guida al voto per gli italiani in Regno Unito Le prossime Elezioni politiche 2022 sono state fissate per il 25 settembre 2022 quando in Italia si voterà per rinnovare la Camera dei Deputati e il Senato della Repubblica. I cittadini residenti all’estero e temporaneamente all’estero voteranno prima (le schede elettorali dovranno arrivae agli Uffici consolari entro il 22settembre) per i candidati della Circoscrizione estero. Londra Notizie 24 ha provato a contattare alcuni candidati e gli ha chiesto informazioni sul loro programma in particolare per gli italiani all'estero nel caso saranno eletti. Ecco i candidati. Camera dei Deputati - Circoscrizione Estero - Europa - Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra: Benedetta Scuderi; David Checchi; Elisa Fiorucci; Mattia Lento; Elisa Siragusa; Francesco Muscau. - Azione-Italia Viva-Calenda: Massimo Ungaro; Laura Garavini; Tatiana Gaudimonte; Barbara Gallino; Giovanni Pacialeo; Emanuela Rossini. Centro Destra Berlusconi-Salvini-Meloni: Giuseppe Arnone; Simone Billi; Antonio Cenini; Elio Rossi; Giuseppe Stabile; Stefano Ticozzelli. - Movimento 5 Stelle: Marcello Pilato; Diego Renzi; Piergiuseppe Pusceddu; Federica Onori; Salvatore La Barbera; Simone Cilliani. - Movimento delle Libertà: Massimo Romagnoli; Giuseppe Volpe; Giuseppe Crocamo; Maria Teresa Riggi; Susana Lujan Crea; Francesca Meli. - Partito Democratico: Toni Ricciardi; Laura Albanese; Mariza Antonietta Bafile; Nadia Buttini; Salvatore Mineo; Federico Quadrelli. - Più Europa: Antonino Mazzola; Benedetta Dentamaro; Maurizio D’Ercoli; Maria Jesus Grana Gonzales; Angelo Di Pietro. Senato - Circoscrizione Estero - Europa - Azione-Italia Viva-Calenda: Alice De Santis; Tipu Golam. - Centro Destra Berlusconi-Salvini-Meloni: Luigi Billè; Alessandro Zehentner. - Movimento 5 Stelle: Andrea Bardin; Stefano Balbi. - Movimento delle Libertà: Alessandra Agostini; Ester Barone. - Partito Democratico: Andrea Crisanti; Michele Schiavone. #Politiche2022, istruzioni per il voto Il voto per le Elezioni politiche 2022 in Italia è previsto per il 25 settembre 2022, mentre gli italiani residenti all'estero e temporaneamente all'estero devono votare prima: le schede elettorali infatti vanno restituite all'Ufficio consolare entro il 22 settembre. Il voto all'estero riguarda i cittadini italiani residenti all'estero e iscritti all'Aire e gli italiani residenti in Italia e che si trovano all'estero per almeno tre mesi per studio, lavoro o cure mediche, nonché per i familiari conviventi. Gli italiani temporaneamente all'estero devono aver fatto richiesta del plico elettorale entro il 24 agosto. Gli elettori all'estero votano per corrispondenza e ricevono via posta un plico con il materiale elettorale e le istruzioni per il voto. Il duplicato del plico elettorale non ricevuto può essere richiesto in duplicato entro il giorno 11 settembre. Dopo aver votato, l'elettore all'estero deve inserire la scheda nella busta preaffrancata e deve farla pervenire al Consolato di riferimento entro le ore 16 del 22 settembre. Informazioni dettagliate sono disponibili sia sul sito del Ministero degli Affari Esteri (www.esteri.it) e sul sito del Consolato di riferimento. ... @ItalyinLDN Continua a leggere su Read the full article

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Lavinia Fontana's portrait of Antonietta Gonzale, circa 1595. The text on the paper reads in translation:

’Don Pietro, a wild man discovered in the Canary Islands, was conveyed to his most serene highness Henry the king of France, and from there came to his Excellency the Duke of Parma. From whom [came] I, Antonietta, and now I can be found nearby at the court of the Lady Isabella Pallavicina, the honorable Marchesa of Soragna.’

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales