1470s in art

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

Events

• 1479 - September: Painter Gentile Bellini is sent by the Senate of Venice to the new Ottoman capital Constantinople as a cultural ambassador.

Sculpture

• 1474: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi creates his wooden statue of a youthful Saint Catherine of Siena that is set in her Sanctuary in Siena

Paintings

Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation (1475–1480), Uffizi, is thought to be Leonardo's earliest complete work

• 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
• 1473: Francesco del Cossa paints the Griffoni Polyptych.
• 1474: Ercole de' Roberti paints St. Jerome in the Wilderness
• 1474-5: Andrea del Verrocchio assisted by Leonardo da Vinci paints The Baptism of Christ
• c.1474-8: Leonardo da Vinci paints Ginevra de' Benci
• 1475: Leonardo da Vinci paints The Annunciation
• 1475: Andrea Mantegna completes a decade's work on the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal palace, Mantua, Lombardy
• c.1475: Antonio del Pollaiolo completes painting Saint Sebastian for the Pucci Chapel of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and paints Hercules and the Hydra
• 1478: Leonardo da Vinci paints either The Benois Madonna or the Madonna with the Carnation

Births

• 1470: Marco Bello – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini (died 1523)
• 1470: Ambrogio Bergognone – Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school (died 1523/1524)
• 1470: Marco Basaiti - Venetian Greek painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini (died 1530)
• 1470: Valerio Belli – Italian engraver and medallion maker (died 1546)
• 1470: Jorge Afonso – Portuguese Renaissance painter (died 1540)
• 1470: Gregor Erhart - German sculptor, son of Michel Erhart (died 1540)
• 1470: Matthias Grünewald – German Renaissance painter of religious works (died 1528)
• 1470: Wen Zhengming – Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (died 1559)
• 1470: Guillaume de Marcillat - French painter and stained glass artist (died 1529)
• 1470: Girolamo Mocetto - Italian Renaissance painter, engraver, and stained glass designer (died 1530)
• 1470: Girolamo Alibrandi - Italian painter (died 1524)
• 1470: Vincenzo Civerchio – Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1544)
• 1470: Michele da Verona – Italian painter of the Renaissance period (died 1536)
• 1470: Tang Yin – Chinese scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty (died 1524)
• 1470: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen – Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter (died 1533)
• 1470: Girolamo di Benvenuto - Italian painter, son of Benvenuto di Giovanni (died 1525)
• 1470: Juan de Borgoña – High Renaissance painter born in the Duchy of Burgundy (died 1534)
• 1470: Rueland Frueauf the Younger - German Late-Gothic painter (died 1545)
• 1470: Jan van Dornicke, South Netherlandish painter (died 1527)
• 1471: Albrecht Dürer – German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg, Germany (died 1528)
• 1471: Gaudenzio Ferrari – Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance (died 1546)
• 1471: Girolamo Marchesi - Italian painter (died 1550)
• 1471: Francesco Morone - Italian painter active mainly in Verona (died 1529)
• 1472: Fra Bartolommeo - Florentine painter (died 1517)
• 1472: Lucas Cranach the Elder – German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving (died 1553)
• 1473: Hans Burgkmair – German painter and printmaker in woodcut (died 1531)
• 1474: October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1515)
• 1474: Giovanni Francesco Rustici – Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (died 1554)
• 1474: Giacomo Pacchiarotti – Italian painter (died 1539/1540)
• 1474/1475: Girolamo dai Libri – Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces (died 1555)
• 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer (died 1564)
• 1475: Giuliano Bugiardini - Italian painter (died 1577)
• 1475: Jan de Beer – Italian painter (died 1528)
• 1475: Alejo Fernandez – Spanish painter of the 16th century (died 1545)
• 1475: Giovanni Angelo Del Maino - Italian sculptor in wood (died unknown)
• 1475: Vicente Juan Masip - Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1545)
• 1475: Jan Mostaert – Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects (died 1555/1556)
• 1475: Vasco Fernandes – Portuguese Renaissance painter (died 1542)
• 1475: Guglielmo da Marsiglia – Italian painter of stained glass (died 1537)
• 1476: Kanō Motonobu – Italian painter (died 1559)
• 1476: Girolamo Genga – Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance (died 1551)
• 1476: Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter (died 1560)
• 1476: Jacopo Torni – Florentine painter (died 1526)
• 1477: Il Sodoma – Italian Mannerist painter (died 1549)
• 1477: Giorgione – Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice (died 1510)
• 1477: Girolamo del Pacchia – Italian painter (died 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 (died 1523)
• 1478: Jan Mabuse – Flemish painter (died 1532)
• 1478: Antonello Gagini – Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance (died 1536)
• 1478: Martin Schaffner – German painter and medallist (died 1548)
• 1479: Antoine Juste – Italian sculptor (died 1519)
• 1479: Jacob van Utrecht – Flemish early Renaissance painter (died 1525)

Deaths

• 1479: Antonello da Messina – Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance (born 1430)
• 1479: Felice Feliciano - Italian calligrapher, composer of alchemical sonnets, and expert on Roman antiquity (born 1433)
• 1479: Loyset Liédet - early Netherlandish miniaturist and illuminator (born 1420)
• 1479: Zanobi Machiavelli – Italian early Renaissance painter (died 1418)
• 1478: Johannes Mentelin - German calligrapher, book scribe, and printmaker (born 1410)
• 1478/1481: Antonio Rossellino – Italian sculptor (born 1427)
• 1476: Cristoforo di Geremia – Italian medalist (born 1410)
• 1475: Dieric Bouts – Early Netherlandish painter (born 1410/1420)
• 1475: Albert van Ouwater – Early Netherlandish painter working in the Northern Netherlands (born 1410/1415)
• 1475: Maulana Azhar - Persian calligrapher (born unknown)
• 1475: Cristoforo Moretti - painter of the quattrocento who worked in a late International Gothic style (born 1451)
• 1475: March 6 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter, draughtsman, mosaicist and designer (born 1397)
• 1475/1476: Petrus Christus – Netherlandish painter active in Bruges (born 1410/1420)
• 1474: Du Qiong – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born 1396)
• 1474: Giovanni da Oriolo - Italian painter of the Quattrocento (born unknown)
• 1473: Nikolaus Gerhaert – Dutch sculptor (born 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 (born 1404)
• 1472: Michelozzo – Italian architect and sculptor (born 1396)
• 1472: Liu Jue – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born 1409)
• 1471: Nōami – Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate (born 1397)
• 1470: Jacopo Bellini – one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy (born 1396)
• 1470: Barthélemy d'Eyck – Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France as a painter and manuscript illuminator (born 1420)
• 1470: Xia Chang – Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1388)
• 1470: Jacques Daret – Early Netherlandish painter (born 1404)
• 1470: Dello di Niccolò Delli - Italian sculptor and painter from Florence (born 1403)
• 1470: Belbello da Pavia - Italian painter and illuminator (born unknown)