[Scotti] (b Piacenza; fl Milan, 1454–85). Italian painter. He is first documented in 1454 as a native of Piacenza. Between 1456 and 1470 he appears frequently in the account-books of Milan Cathedral working on commissions from various members of the Sforza court. He is also recorded working for the Borromeo family during the same period. His work seems to have consisted of minor tasks, such as the gilding of statues and the design of processional banners and embroidered altarcloths. In 1472 Gottardo and the painter Giacomo Vismara (fl 1470s) estimated Zanetto Bugatto’s frescoes in S Maria delle Grazie outside Vigevano. He may have been at work on Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza’s chapel in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, in 1473 and was part of the team that painted the ducal chapel in Pavia in 1474. In 1475 he was commissioned to paint a Maestà (untraced) for the high altar in Milan Cathedral and was listed as a member of the Milanese painters’ guild in ...