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

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
• 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)