Overview of the events of the 1470s in art
The decade of the 1470s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Sculpture
Paintings
Leonardo da Vinci , Annunciation Uffizi , thought to be Leonardo's earliest complete workHans Memling St John Altarpiece
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 )
1470: Jacob van Laethem - Flemish painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (died 1528 )
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 )[ 1]
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: May 19 - Isabella d'Este , Italian noblewoman (Marchioness of Mantua ), art collector, and patroness (died 1539 )
1474: Giovanni Francesco Rustici – Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (died 1554 )
1474: Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1520 )
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: Albert Cornelis - Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1532 )
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 )
1475-80: Martino Piazza - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1523 )
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 )
1477: Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1415 )
c. 1477: Francesco del Cossa - Italian Renaissance painter (born c. 1430)
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 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 )
References
A Bridal Couple (1470) by the Schwäbischer Meister in 1470
The Dead Lovers Unknown artist, Upper Rhineland, ca. 1470
