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Petrus Gonsalvus
Lavinia Fontana de Zappis
about 1585
Oil on canvas
Vienna, Kunsthistorische museum, Ambras Art Collection (or Innsbruck, Castelo de Ambras)
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| | | | Base on documents, this painting is the portrait of Petrus Gonsalvus, born in 1556 on Tenerife. As a child he came to the court of the French King Henry II, who became his tutor. Petrus Gonsalvus and his family, especially his hirsuite children, were popular objects of medical research in these times. Now doctors found out that their 'odd appearance' was the results of a sickness, known as hipertricose. |
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