1470s in art

The decade of the 1470s in art involved some significant events.

Sculpture

• 1474: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi creates his wooden statue of a youthful Saint Catherine of Siena that was set in the Sanctuary of Santa Caterina

Paintings

• 1470: Carlo Crivelli paints the altarpiece (1470–71) for the church of San Francesco in Gualdo Tadino, on the border of Umbria, near Fabriano, Italy
• 1470: Cosimo Rosselli paints Madonna and Child
• 1470: Cosimo Tura paints Saint Jerome
• 1474: Ercole de' Roberti paints St. Jerome in the Wilderness
• 1475: Leonardo da Vinci paints The Annunciation
• 1478: Either The Benois Madonna or the Madonna with the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci

Births

• 1470: Marco Bello – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini (d. 1523)
• 1470: Ambrogio Bergognone – Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school (d. 1523/1524)
• 1470: Valerio Belli – Italian engraver and medallion maker (d. 1546)
• 1470: Jorge Afonso – Portuguese Renaissance painter (d. 1540)
• 1470: Matthias Grünewald – German Renaissance painter of religious works (d. 1528)
• 1470: Wen Zhengming – Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (d. 1559)
• 1470: Vincenzo Civerchio – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1544)
• 1470: Michele da Verona – Italian painter of the Renaissance period (d. 1536)
• 1470: Tang Yin – Chinese scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty (d. 1524)
• 1470: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen – Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter (d. 1533)
• 1470: Juan de Borgoña – High Renaissance painter born in the Duchy of Burgundy (d. 1534)
• 1470: Jan van Dornicke, South Netherlandish painter (d. 1527)
• 1471: Albrecht Dürer – German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1528)
• 1471: Gaudenzio Ferrari – Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance (d. 1546)
• 1472: Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine painter (d. 1517)
• 1472: Lucas Cranach the Elder – German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving (d. 1553)
• 1473: Hans Burgkmair – German painter and printmaker in woodcut (d. 1531)
• 1474: October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1515)
• 1474: Giovanni Francesco Rustici – Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (d. 1554)
• 1474: Giacomo Pacchiarotti – Italian painter (d. 1539/1540)
• 1474/1475: Girolamo dai Libri – Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces (d. 1555)
• 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer (d. 1564)
• 1475: Jan de Beer – Italian painter (d. 1528)
• 1475: Alejo Fernandez – Spanish painter of the sixteenth century (d. 1545)
• 1475: Jan Mostaert – Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects (d. 1555/1556)
• 1475: Vasco Fernandes – Portuguese Renaissance painter (d. 1542)
• 1475: Guglielmo da Marsiglia – Italian painter of stained glass (d. 1537)
• 1476: Kanō Motonobu – Italian painter (d. 1559)
• 1476: Girolamo Genga – Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance (d. 1551)
• 1476: Jacopo Torni – Florentine painter (d. 1526)
• 1477: Il Sodoma – Italian Mannerist painter (d. 1549)
• 1477: Giorgione – Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice (d. 1510)
• 1477: Girolamo del Pacchia – Italian painter (d. 1533)
• 1477: Lü Ji – Chinese painter of primarily bird-and-flower paintings during the Ming Dynasty (d. unknown)
• 1477: Cesare da Sesto – Italian painter active primarily in Milan (d. 1523)
• 1478: Jan Mabuse – Flemish painter (d. 1532)
• 1478: Antonello Gagini – Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance (d. 1536)
• 1478: Martin Schaffner – German painter and medallist (d. 1548)
• 1479: Antoine Juste – Italian sculptor (d. 1519)
• 1479: Jacob van Utrecht – Flemish early Renaissance painter (d. 1525)

Deaths

• 1479: Antonello da Messina – Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance (b. 1430)
• 1479: Zanobi Machiavelli – Italian early Renaissance painter (d. 1418)
• 1478/1481: Antonio Rossellino – Italian sculptor (b. 1427)
• 1476: Cristoforo di Geremia – Italian medalist (b. 1410)
• 1475: Dieric Bouts – Early Netherlandish painter (b. 1410/1420)
• 1475: Albert van Ouwater – Early Netherlandish painter working in the Northern Netherlands (b. 1410/1415)
• 1475: March 6 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter, draughtsman, mosaicist and designer (b. 1397)
• 1475/1476: Petrus Christus – Netherlandish painter active in Bruges (b. 1410/1420)
• 1474: Du Qiong – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1396)
• 1473: Nikolaus Gerhaert – Dutch sculptor (b. 1420)
• 1472: Leone Battista Alberti – Italian author who wrote treatises on painting and architecture have been hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (b. 1404)
• 1472: Michelozzo – Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1396)
• 1472: Liu Jue – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1409)
• 1471: Nōami – Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1397)
• 1470: Jacopo Bellini – one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy (b. 1396)
• 1470: Barthélemy d'Eyck – Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France as a painter and manuscript illuminator (b. 1420)
• 1470: Xia Chang – Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1388)
• 1470: Jacques Daret – Early Netherlandish painter (b. 1404)