1470s in art
The decade of the 1470s in art involved some significant events.
Events
- 1470 - Francesco del Cossa leaves Ferrara for Bologna.
- 1473 - Hanseatic privateer Paul Beneke, captain of the Peter von Danzig, boards the galley St. Thomas in the North Sea; among the goods seized is Hans Memling's triptych The Last Judgment.
- 1479 - September: Painter Gentile Bellini is sent by the Senate of Venice to the new Ottoman capital Constantinople as a cultural ambassador.
Sculpture
- 1473-1475: Andrea del Verrocchio models David
- 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
- 1475: alabaster cadaver monument of Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, installed in Ewelme church in Oxfordshire
Paintings
- 1470
- * Carlo Crivelli paints the altarpiece for the church of San Francesco in Gualdo Tadino, on the border of Umbria, near Fabriano, Italy
- * Cosimo Rosselli paints Madonna and Child
- * Cosmè Tura paints St. Jerome
- c.1470: Hans Memling paints St. John the Baptist, Adoration of the Magi and Scenes from the Passion of Christ
- c.1470-2
- * Francesco del Cossa paints an Annunciation and Nativity series
- * Hans Memling paints the Portrait of Maria Portinari
- c.1470-5: Piero del Pollaiuolo paints Portrait of a Young Woman
- By 1471: Hans Memling completes painting The Last Judgment
- 1472
- * Carlo Crivelli paints the 1472 Altarpiece
- * Hans Memling paints the portrait of Gilles Joye
- 1473:
- * Francesco del Cossa paints the
- * Martin Schongauer paints the Madonna of the Rose Bower
- 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
- c.1475-80: Hans Memling paints the Donne Triptych
- 1475
- * Leonardo da Vinci paints The Annunciation
- * Andrea Mantegna completes a decade's work on the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal palace, Mantua, Lombardy
- * Hans Memling paints Portrait of a Man with a Pink Carnation
- c.1475
- * Antonello da Messina paints Portrait of a Man
- * Piero del Pollaiuolo completes painting Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian for the Pucci Chapel of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and his brother Antonio paints Hercules and the Hydra and Apollo and Daphne
- * Hans Memling paints the
- 1476: Joseph ibn Hayyim completes illumination of the "Kennicott" Hebrew Bible
- c.1476-8: Andrea del Verrocchio assisted by Lorenzo di Credi paints
- 1478
- * Leonardo da Vinci paints either The Benois Madonna or the Madonna with the Carnation
- * Hans Memling paints Christ Giving His Blessing
- c.1478: Domenico Ghirlandaio paints Portrait of a Man and frescoes in Santa Fina Chapel of Collegiate Church of San Gimignano in Tuscany
- c.1479: Hans Memling completes painting the St John Altarpiece for Old St. John's Hospital in Bruges and, at about the same time, the Donne Triptych
- c.1479-80: Hans Memling paints ''Allegory with a Virgin''
Births
- 1470: Marco Bello – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini
- 1470: Ambrogio Bergognone – Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school
- 1470: Marco Basaiti - Venetian Greek painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini
- 1470: Valerio Belli – Italian engraver and medallion maker
- 1470: Jorge Afonso – Portuguese Renaissance painter
- 1470: Gregor Erhart - German sculptor, son of Michel Erhart
- 1470: Matthias Grünewald – German Renaissance painter of religious works
- 1470: Wen Zhengming – Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar
- 1470: Guillaume de Marcillat - French painter and stained glass artist
- 1470: Girolamo Mocetto - Italian Renaissance painter, engraver, and stained glass designer
- 1470: Girolamo Alibrandi - Italian painter
- 1470: Vincenzo Civerchio – Italian painter of the Renaissance
- 1470: Michele da Verona – Italian painter of the Renaissance period
- 1470: Tang Yin – Chinese scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty
- 1470: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen – Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter
- 1470: Girolamo di Benvenuto - Italian painter, son of Benvenuto di Giovanni
- 1470: Juan de Borgoña – High Renaissance painter born in the Duchy of Burgundy
- 1470: Rueland Frueauf the Younger - German Late-Gothic painter
- 1470: Jan van Dornicke, South Netherlandish painter
- 1470: Jacob van Laethem - Flemish painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era
- 1471: Albrecht Dürer – German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg, Germany
- 1471: Gaudenzio Ferrari – Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance
- 1471: Girolamo Marchesi - Italian painter
- 1471: Francesco Morone - Italian painter active mainly in Verona
- 1472: Fra Bartolommeo - Florentine painter
- 1472: Lucas Cranach the Elder – German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving
- 1473: Hans Burgkmair – German painter and printmaker in woodcut
- 1474: October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter
- 1474: May 19 - Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman, art collector, and patroness
- 1474: Giovanni Francesco Rustici – Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor
- 1474: Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1474: Giacomo Pacchiarotti – Italian painter
- 1474/1475: Girolamo dai Libri – Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces
- 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo - Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer
- 1475: Albert Cornelis - Flemish Renaissance painter
- 1475: Giuliano Bugiardini - Italian painter
- 1475: Jan de Beer – Italian painter
- 1475: Alejo Fernandez – Spanish painter of the 16th century
- 1475: Giovanni Angelo Del Maino - Italian sculptor in wood
- 1475: Vicente Juan Masip - Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
- 1475: Jan Mostaert – Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects
- 1475: Vasco Fernandes – Portuguese Renaissance painter
- 1475: Guglielmo da Marsiglia – Italian painter of stained glass
- 1475-80: Martino Piazza - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1476: Kanō Motonobu – Italian painter
- 1476: Girolamo Genga – Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance
- 1476: Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter
- 1476: Jacopo Torni – Florentine painter
- 1477: Il Sodoma – Italian Mannerist painter
- 1477: Giorgione – Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice
- 1477: Girolamo del Pacchia – Italian painter
- 1477: Lü Ji – Chinese painter of primarily bird-and-flower paintings during the Ming Dynasty
- 1477: Cesare da Sesto – Italian painter active primarily in Milan
- 1478: Jan Mabuse – Flemish painter
- 1478: Antonello Gagini – Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance
- 1478: Martin Schaffner – German painter and medallist
- 1479: Antoine Juste – Italian sculptor
- 1479: Jacob van Utrecht – Flemish early Renaissance painter
Deaths
- 1479: Antonello da Messina – Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance
- 1479: Felice Feliciano - Italian calligrapher, composer of alchemical sonnets, and expert on Roman antiquity
- 1479: Loyset Liédet - early Netherlandish miniaturist and illuminator
- 1479: Zanobi Machiavelli – Italian early Renaissance painter
- 1478: Johannes Mentelin - German calligrapher, book scribe, and printmaker
- 1478/1481: Antonio Rossellino – Italian sculptor
- 1477: Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro - Italian Renaissance painter
- c. 1477: Francesco del Cossa - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1476: Cristoforo di Geremia – Italian medalist
- 1475: Dieric Bouts – Early Netherlandish painter
- 1475: Albert van Ouwater – Early Netherlandish painter working in the Northern Netherlands
- 1475: Maulana Azhar - Persian calligrapher
- 1475: Cristoforo Moretti - painter of the quattrocento who worked in a late International Gothic style
- 1475: March 6 – Paolo Uccello, Italian painter, draughtsman, mosaicist and designer
- 1475/1476: Petrus Christus – Netherlandish painter active in Bruges
- 1474: Du Qiong – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
- 1474: Giovanni da Oriolo - Italian painter of the Quattrocento
- 1473: Nikolaus Gerhaert – Dutch sculptor
- 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
- 1472: Michelozzo – Italian architect and sculptor
- 1472: Liu Jue – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
- 1471: Nōami – Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate
- 1470: Jacopo Bellini – one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy
- 1470: Barthélemy d'Eyck – Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France as a painter and manuscript illuminator
- 1470: Xia Chang – Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty
- 1470: Jacques Daret – Early Netherlandish painter
- 1470: Dello di Niccolò Delli - Italian sculptor and painter from Florence
- 1470: Belbello da Pavia - Italian painter and illuminator