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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales

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Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales
ArtistLavinia Fontana
Year1595
Mediumoil on canvas
LocationChâteau of Blois, Blois

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 Gonzales (also known as Tognina Gonsalvus), daughter of Petrus Gonsalvus.[1][2] Antonietta was born in 1588.[3] The painting is now in the collection of the Château of Blois.[4]

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  1. ^ Wells, Christopher William (2018). "Court "Monsters": Deformity in the Western European Royal Courts between 1500 and 1700". Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. 7 (2): 182–214.
  2. ^ "L'histoire de Antonietta Gonsalvus". www.artaufeminin.fr. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  3. ^ Wells, Christopher William (2018-09-01). "Court "Monsters": Deformity in the Western European Royal Courts between 1500 and 1700". Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. 7 (2): 182–214. doi:10.5325/preternature.7.2.0182. ISSN 2161-2196.
  4. ^ natashamoura (2020-01-22). "Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez by Lavinia Fontana". Women'n Art. Retrieved 2024-08-31.

References

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  • Martino, E. 2010. “Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales Lavinia Fontana De Zappis (1552–1614).” Journal of Endocrinological Investigation 33 (7): 511–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03346636.