Lavinia Fontana, the Self-Fashioned Painter
Lavinia Fontana, “Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait” (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private collection (image via Wikimedia Commons) Possibly because of the absence of a string of nucleotides in chromosome 8, fewer than one in a billion people have a hereditary condition known as generalized hypertrichosis terminalis, which …