"Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) was an Italian painter, born in Bologna, the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was a prominent painter of the School of Bologna at the time and served as her teacher. Antonietta Gonsalus was a woman who suffered from hepatoerythropoietic porphyria; a disease characterized by severe facial hypertrichosis (excessive hair growth)." - Adriano