Zanetto Bugatto

Portrait of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (attr.), 1474-76, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Zanetto Bugatto (active 1458, died before March 19, 1476) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

Biography

He was likely born around 1440. Documents show that in 1460 he was sent by the Duke of Milan with a stipend to work for Phillip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. In Brussels, he entered the studio of Rogier van der Weyden. He returned to Milan by 1463. in 1465, along with Giacomo da Lodi, he made estimates for the quality of the frescoes by Giacomo Vismara and the Zavattari for the presbytery of the church of San Vincenzo in Prato, Milan. He is said to have worked for some time around 1468 in the court of King Louis XI of France. In 1470, he helped Maffeo da Civate with images of the Duke of Milan for the mint. In 1472, he worked with Bonifacio Bembo and Leonardo Ponzoni in painting frescoes for the Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Vigevano.

He was known by Bryan as a portrait painter, including depictions of Ippolita Sforza (portrait sent to France in 1450) and of Bona of Savoy. In 1473 he painted portraits of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, his wife, and his child that are placed in the choir of San Celso, Milan.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. 193–194.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)