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Gonsalvus eventually settled in Italy with his wife. The last known record of him is from 1617, when he was listed among those who had attended his grandson's christening. It is believed the marriage between Petrus Gonsalvus and Lady Catherine may have partially inspired the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. [5] [6]
Tognina's parents, Petrus and Catherine, by Hoefnagel. National Gallery of Art Washington. Tognina's father, Petrus Gonsalvus, was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1556. As a child, he was sent to the court of Henry II where he was initially kept as a monkey and didn't receive attention as a human until he grew up.
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.
The town of Wildemann in the Upper Harz was founded during 1529 by miners who, according to legend, met a wild man and wife when they ventured into the wilds of the Harz mountain range. Pedro Gonzalez. Anon, c. 1580. Petrus Gonsalvus (born 1537) was referred to by Ulisse Aldrovandi as "the man of the woods" due to his condition, hypertrichosis ...
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.
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.
Gonsalvus and his wife and children later moved to Parma (northern Italy), to live under the patronage of Duke Ranuccio Farnese. The program also shows a historian named Roberto Zapperi, who has written a biography of Gonsalvus. --Jerome Potts 23:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Petrus Gonsalvus (fl. 1537–1617), first recorded case of hypertrichosis This page was last edited on 24 January 2024, at 16:07 (UTC). Text is available under the ...