Zanetto Bugatto, Court Portraitist in Sforza Milan

• Autores: Luke Syson
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 138, Nº 1118, 1996, págs. 300-308
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Zanetto Bugatto's central place in the history of Lombard painting has long been assumed. The unusually large array of documentary material regarding his activity has been analysed to demonstrate his importance as a portraitist to the two first Sforza dukes of Milan and to illuminate the rare circumstance of his training in Rogier van der Weyden's workshop - a fact that makes him a key figure in any discussion of Netherlandish influence on Italian painting.' In the absence of any surviving signed or fully documented pictures, attempts have been made to attach his name to various, extremely diverse paintings, an exercise that has some affinities with the game of pinning the tail on the donkey. Indeed, critics have been working blindfold, guided only by often misleading assumptions about what Zanetto's painting style might have been.