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Petrus Gonsalvus (Spanish: Pedro González; c. 1537, Tenerife – c. 1618, Capodimonte), referred to by Ulisse Aldrovandi as "the man of the woods", [1] was a gentleman in the court of Henry II of France.
The Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales is a portrait by one of the most important Italian Renaissance women artists, Lavinia Fontana.The portrait is oil on canvas and depicts a girl with hypertrichosis named Antonietta Gonsalvus (also known as Tognina Gonsalvus), daughter of Petrus Gonsalvus.
Petrus, called the "ape-man," regularly participated in social events, dressed in courtly robes, while little Tognina always dressed like a doll. [2] The Gonsalvus family is known to have traveled to Italy around 1580–1590 as their stay was recorded at the court of Margaret of Parma. [1]
The collection has a painting of Petrus Gonsalvus and his family, as well as other people who display an extreme form of hirsutism, also called Ambras syndrome in 1933 in reference to its depiction at this collection. [2] The life of Pedro Gonzalez has been well chronicled as he became famous during his lifetime on account of his condition.
Wild men support coats of arms in the side panels of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1499 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).. The wild man, wild man of the woods, woodwose or wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
Portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus known as Tognina. The first recorded case of hypertrichosis was Petrus Gonsalvus who was born in the Canary Islands. [8] This was documented by Ulisse Aldrovandi and published in his posthumous Monstrorum Historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium in 1642.
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