1470s in art
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1460s in art
The decade of the 1460s in art involved some significant events.-Paintings:* 1469: Petrus Christus paints Portrait of a Lady.* 1467: Shen Zhou paints Lofty Mt...

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1480s in art
The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.-Events:* 1482 – A Milanese Duke commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equine statue that would have been the largest in the world...

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

Sculpture

  • 1474: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi
    Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi
    Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena.He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468...

     creates his wooden statue of a youthful Saint Catherine of Siena that was set in the Sanctuary of Santa Caterina

Paintings

  • 1470: Carlo Crivelli
    Carlo Crivelli
    Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione and Mantegna...

     paints the altarpiece (1470–71) for the church of San Francesco in Gualdo Tadino
    Gualdo Tadino
    Gualdo Tadino, an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Mt. Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is 47 km NE of Perugia and 30 km SE of Gubbio....

    , on the border of Umbria
    Umbria
    Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked.Its capital is Perugia.Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St...

    , near Fabriano
    Fabriano
    Fabriano is a town and comune of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche, at 325 m above sea-level. It lies in the Esino valley 44 km upstream and SW of Jesi; and 15 km ENE of Fossato di Vico and 36 km east of Gubbio...

    , Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

  • 1470: Cosimo Rosselli
    Cosimo Rosselli
    Cosimo Rosselli was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence.-Biography:Born in Florence, at the age of fourteen he became a pupil of Neri di Bicci, and in 1460 he worked as assistant to his cousin Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli...

     paints Madonna and Child
  • 1470: Cosimo Tura
    Cosimo Tura
    Cosimo Tura , also known as Il Cosmè or Cosmè Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara....

     paints Saint Jerome
    Saint Jerome
    Saint Jerome is a Christian church father, best known for translating the Bible into Latin.Saint Jerome may also refer to:*Jerome of Pavia , Bishop of Pavia...

  • 1474: Ercole de' Roberti
    Ercole de' Roberti
    thumb|240px|Portrait of [[Giovanni II Bentivoglio]] . National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Ercole de' Roberti , also known as Ercole Ferrarese or Ercole da Ferrara, was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance and the School of Ferrara...

     paints St. Jerome in the Wilderness
  • 1475: Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...

     paints The Annunciation
  • 1478: Either The Benois Madonna
    The Benois Madonna
    Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas started by Leonardo da Vinci, as he remarked himself, in October 1478. The other one could be Madonna with the Carnation from Munich....

    or the Madonna with the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...


Births

  • 1470: Marco Bello
    Marco Bello
    Marco Bello was an Italian painter active in the Renaissance period. He was one of the pupils in the studio of Giovanni Bellini.-References:...

     – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it...

     (d. 1523
    1523 in art
    -Births:* Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter * Pieter Pourbus – Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter * Stradanus – Flanders-born mannerist painter * Crispin van den Broeck – Flemish painter...

    )
  • 1470: Ambrogio Bergognone
    Ambrogio Bergognone
    Ambrogio Borgognone Ambrogio Borgognone Ambrogio Borgognone (variously known as Ambrogio da Fossano, Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano, Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano or as il Bergognone, c...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of the Milanese school (d. 1523/1524
    1523 in art
    -Births:* Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter * Pieter Pourbus – Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter * Stradanus – Flanders-born mannerist painter * Crispin van den Broeck – Flemish painter...

    )
  • 1470: Valerio Belli
    Valerio Belli
    thumb|150px|right|A large bronze [[Casting |cast]] [[Medal|medallion]] created by Belli in the early sixteenth century.Valerio Belli , also known as Valerio Vicentino, was a celebrated medallist and engraver of gems noted by the art historian Giorgio Vasari...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     engraver and medallion maker (d. 1546
    1546 in art
    -Events:The plan for the new St. Peter's Basilica dome which was begun by Bramante, was continued by the new chief architect Michelangelo-Paintings:* Domenico Beccafumi – Pagan Child Couple* Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds-Births:...

    )
  • 1470: Jorge Afonso
    Jorge Afonso
    Jorge Afonso was an important Portuguese Renaissance painter.Jorge Afonso was nominated royal painter in 1508 by King Manuel I and again in 1529 by John III. He was mainly based in Lisbon, with a workshop near the Church of São Domingos...

     – Portuguese
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     painter (d. 1540
    1540 in art
    -Works:*Südindischer Meister – Group of Women* Qiu Ying paints The Imperial examinations-Births:* Giovanni Maria Butteri – Italian painter primarily of frescoes * Dionysius Calvaert , Flemish painter...

    )
  • 1470: Matthias Grünewald
    Matthias Grünewald
    Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was a German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.Only ten paintings—several consisting...

     – German Renaissance
    German Renaissance
    The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated from the Italian Renaissance in Italy...

     painter of religious works (d. 1528
    1528 in art
    -Works:* The Artist's Family – Hans Holbein-Births:* Federico Barocci, Italian painter * Theodor de Bry, Flemish engraver and draftsman * Gillis Mostaert – Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert...

    )
  • 1470: Wen Zhengming
    Wen Zhengming
    Wen Zhengming was a leading Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar.Born in present-day Suzhou, he claimed to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty prime minister and patriot Wen Tianxiang. Wen’s family was originally from Hengyang, Hunan, where his family had established itself shortly...

     – Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    , calligrapher, and scholar (d. 1559
    1559 in art
    -Works:-Paintings:* Pieter Bruegel the Elder**The Fight Between Carnival and Lent**Netherlandish Proverbs* Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ-Births:* Juan de las Roelas – Spanish painter...

    )
  • 1470: Vincenzo Civerchio
    Vincenzo Civerchio
    Vincenzo Civerchio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born at Crema, and active also in Brescia. One of his works is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., others in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy. He is said to be an imitator of Bernardino Butinone, Bernardino Zenale, and...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of the Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     (d. 1544
    1544 in art
    -Births:* Gillis van Coninxloo – Dutch painter of forest landscapes * Palma il Giovane – Italian Mannerist painter * Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter * Frans Francken I – Flemish painter...

    )
  • 1470: Michele da Verona
    Michele da Verona
    Michele da Verona was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.He was born in Verona, a contemporary of Paolo Morando, and may have assisted him in the decorative work for San Bernardino there...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter of the Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     period (d. 1536
    1536 in art
    -Painting:* Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt * Hans Holbein – Henry VIII* Titian – La Belle-Births:...

    )
  • 1470: Tang Yin
    Tang Yin
    Tang Yin , better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu , was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming Dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore...

     – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (d. 1524
    1524 in art
    -Paintings:* Giovanni Francesco Bembo paints an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor* Francesco Vecellio completes an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore...

    )
  • 1470: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
    Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
    Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen was a Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter. He was one of the first important artists working in Amsterdam, at a time when it was a flourishing provincial town.-Biography:Little is known about Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's life...

     – Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter (d. 1533
    1533 in art
    -Works:*Hans Holbein - The Ambassadors*Hans Holbein - Thomas Cromwell -Births:* Giovanni Battista da Ponte – Italian painter active in Venice and his native Bassano...

    )
  • 1470: Juan de Borgoña
    Juan de Borgoña
    Juan de Borgoña , was a High Renaissance painter who was born in the Duchy of Burgundy, probably just before it ceased to exist as an independent state, and was active in Spain from about 1495 to 1536. His earliest documented work was painted in 1495 for the cloister of the Cathedral of Toledo...

     – High Renaissance painter
    Spanish Renaissance
    The Spanish Renaissance refers to a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries...

     born in the Duchy of Burgundy
    Duchy of Burgundy
    The Duchy of Burgundy , was heir to an ancient and prestigious reputation and a large division of the lands of the Second Kingdom of Burgundy and in its own right was one of the geographically larger ducal territories in the emergence of Early Modern Europe from Medieval Europe.Even in that...

     (d. 1534
    1534 in art
    -Events:* Michelangelo begins work on the fresco The Last Judgment to be painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel-Painting:* Corneille de Lyon – Portrait of a Man* Lorenzo Lotto – Annunciation-Births:...

    )
  • 1470: Jan van Dornicke
    Jan van Dornicke
    Jan van Dornicke was a South Netherlandish painter who was born about 1470 and died about 1527. His first name is sometimes spelled “Janssone”, and his last name is sometimes spelled “van Doornik” or “van Dornick”. He was active in Antwerp from about 1509 to about 1525. His paintings are...

    , South Netherlandish painter (d. 1527
    1527 in art
    -Events:* Pieter van Aelst enters the Antwerp Guild of painters* John Browne becomes the first Serjeant Painter-Births:* Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter * Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter...

    )
  • 1471: Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...

     – German
    Germans
    The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    , printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg
    Nuremberg
    Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

    , Germany (d. 1528
    1528 in art
    -Works:* The Artist's Family – Hans Holbein-Births:* Federico Barocci, Italian painter * Theodor de Bry, Flemish engraver and draftsman * Gillis Mostaert – Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert...

    )
  • 1471: Gaudenzio Ferrari
    Gaudenzio Ferrari
    Gaudenzio Ferrari was a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.-Biography:Gaudenzio was born at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

     of the Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     (d. 1546
    1546 in art
    -Events:The plan for the new St. Peter's Basilica dome which was begun by Bramante, was continued by the new chief architect Michelangelo-Paintings:* Domenico Beccafumi – Pagan Child Couple* Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds-Births:...

    )
  • 1472: Fra Bartolommeo
    Fra Bartolommeo
    Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo , also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.-Biography:He was born in Savignano di Prato, Tuscany...

    , Florentine
    Republic of Florence
    The Republic of Florence , or the Florentine Republic, was a city-state that was centered on the city of Florence, located in modern Tuscany, Italy. The republic was founded in 1115, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon Margravine Matilda's death. The...

     painter (d. 1517
    1517 in art
    -Events:*Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg*Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus*Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church in Perugia...

    )
  • 1472: Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...

     – German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and printmaker in woodcut
    Woodcut
    Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

     and engraving
    Engraving
    Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

     (d. 1553
    1553 in art
    -Births:* Cherubino Alberti or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter * Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont – Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor * Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter -Deaths:...

    )
  • 1473: Hans Burgkmair
    Hans Burgkmair
    Hans Burgkmair the elder was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut.Burgkmair was born in Augsburg, the son of painter Thomas Burgkmair and his son, Hans the Younger, became one too. From 1488 he was a pupil of Martin Schongauer in Colmar, who died during his two years there, before Burgkmair...

     – German painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and printmaker in woodcut
    Woodcut
    Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

     (d. 1531
    1531 in art
    -Painting:* Correggio – Leda and the Swan* Giulio Romano – Jonah and the Whale* Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – Portrait of Sophie Juliane von der Schulenburg-Births:* Vincenzo Cartari – Italian painter...

    )
  • 1474: October 13 – Mariotto Albertinelli
    Mariotto Albertinelli
    Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli was a High Renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine school, closely involved with Fra Bartolomeo and influenced by Raphael.-Biography:Mariotto Albertinelli was born in Florence...

    , Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1515
    1515 in art
    -Paintings:* Leonardo da Vinci painted a little-known Bacchus.* Jan Gossaert painted The Adoration of the Kings.* Matthias Grünewald painted the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, France.* Jacopo Pontormo painted Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker....

    )
  • 1474: Giovanni Francesco Rustici
    Giovanni Francesco Rustici
    Giovanni Francesco Rustici was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor.He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Renaissance painter
    Italian Renaissance
    The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

     and sculptor (d. 1554
    1554 in art
    -Births:* Paul Brill – landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome * Cesare Corte – Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa * Costantini de' Servi – Italian painter -Deaths:...

    )
  • 1474: Giacomo Pacchiarotti
    Giacomo Pacchiarotti
    Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto was an Italian painter.-Life and Works:He was born in Siena, and worked there...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter (d. 1539/1540
    1539 in art
    -Painting:* Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of Anne of Cleves* Hans Baldung – Virgin and Child-Births:* Pietro Facchetti – Italian painter primarily of portraits...

    )
  • 1474/1475: Girolamo dai Libri
    Girolamo dai Libri
    Girolamo dai Libri was an Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces, working in an early-Renaissance style....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpiece
    Altarpiece
    An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...

    s (d. 1555
    1555 in art
    -Events:* Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan art and artifacts-Paintings:* c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tugra of Sultan Suleyman, from Istambul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.-Births:* April...

    )
  • 1475: March 6 – Michelangelo
    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

    , Italian Renaissance
    Italian Renaissance
    The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    , sculptor, architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

     (d. 1564
    1564 in art
    -Births:* Pieter Brueghel the Younger – Flemish Renaissance painter * Vincenzo Giustiniani – art collector, patron of Caravaggio * Joseph Heintz the Elder – Swiss painter, draftsman and architect...

    )
  • 1475: Jan de Beer
    Jan de Beer (painter)
    Jan de Beer or Henneken de Beer , was an Netherlandish painter and draughtsman.-Biography:According to the RKD he was the son of the painter Claes de Beer and the father of the glasspainter Arnould de Beer. A student at the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, he became a master in 1504. In 1515 he became a...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter (d. 1528
    1528 in art
    -Works:* The Artist's Family – Hans Holbein-Births:* Federico Barocci, Italian painter * Theodor de Bry, Flemish engraver and draftsman * Gillis Mostaert – Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert...

    )
  • 1475: Alejo Fernandez
    Alejo Fernández
    Alejo Fernández was a Spanish painter best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus painted between 1505 and 1536.-Biography:...

     – Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of the sixteenth century (d. 1545
    1545 in art
    -Paintings:* Lucas Cranach the Younger – The Conversion of St. Paul-Sculpture:* Hans Gieng of Fribourg completes work on the fountains of Bern in Switzerland.-Births:...

    )
  • 1475: Jan Mostaert
    Jan Mostaert
    Jan Mostaert, also known by the names Joannes Sinapius and Master Of Oultremont was a Dutch Renaissance painter of portraits and religious subjects, though his most famous creation was the "West Indies Landscape"....

     – Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of portraits and religious subjects (d. 1555/1556
    1555 in art
    -Events:* Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan art and artifacts-Paintings:* c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tugra of Sultan Suleyman, from Istambul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.-Births:* April...

    )
  • 1475: Vasco Fernandes
    Vasco Fernandes
    Vasco Fernandes , better known as Grão Vasco, was one of the main Portuguese Renaissance painters.Vasco Fernandes was probably born in Viseu, in Northern Portugal, where he began his career in the team of painters executing the main altarpiece of Viseu Cathedral . Between 1506 and 1511 he painted...

     – Portuguese
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     painter (d. 1542
    1542 in art
    -Painting:* Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng* Titian – Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese* Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist-Births:...

    )
  • 1475: Guglielmo da Marsiglia
    Guglielmo da Marsiglia
    Guglielmo da Marsiglia was an Italian painter of stained glass of the 16th century. He is also known as Guglielmo da Marcillat, and was a native of Dt. Michiel near Meuse, France....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of stained glass
    Stained glass
    The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...

     (d. 1537
    1537 in art
    -Painting:* Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of Jane Seymour* Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Saint Bernard of Siena Preaching-Births:* Giovanni Battista Naldini – Italian painter of a late-Mannerism in Florence -Deaths:...

    )
  • 1476: Kanō Motonobu
    Kano Motonobu
    Kanō Motonobu was a Japanese painter. He was a member of the Kanō school of painting.Kano Motonobu's father was Kanō Masanobu, the founder of the Kanō school....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     (d. 1559
    1559 in art
    -Works:-Paintings:* Pieter Bruegel the Elder**The Fight Between Carnival and Lent**Netherlandish Proverbs* Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ-Births:* Juan de las Roelas – Spanish painter...

    )
  • 1476: Girolamo Genga
    Girolamo Genga
    Girolamo Genga was an Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance, Mannerist style.- Biography :Genga was born in 1507 in a region near Urbino. According mainly to Giorgio Vasari's biography, by age thirteen Genga had gained an apprenticeship in Orvieto under Luca Signorelli...

     – Italian painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     of the late Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     (d. 1551
    1551 in art
    -Births:* Luigi Benfatto – Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese * Jacopo Chimenti – Italian late-mannerist painter * Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild -Deaths:...

    )
  • 1476: Jacopo Torni
    Jacopo Torni
    Jacopo Torni , also known as Jacobo Fiorentin, L'Indaco, and Jacopo dell'Indaco, was an Italian painter. He was a student of Domenico Ghirlandaio , and the brother of painter Francesco Torni...

     – Florentine painter (d. 1526
    1526 in art
    -Painting:* Albrecht Dürer - The Four Apostles* Lorenzo Lotto – Le Portement de Croix* Lorenzo Lotto – Portrait of a Young Man* Sebastiano del Piombo – Portrait of Andrea Doria-Births:...

    )
  • 1477: Il Sodoma
    Il Sodoma
    Il Sodoma was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena,...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Mannerist
    Mannerism
    Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     (d. 1549
    1549 in art
    -Deaths:* Il Sodoma – Italian Mannerist painter * Jean Juste – Italian sculptor...

    )
  • 1477: Giorgione
    Giorgione
    Giorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of the High Renaissance
    High Renaissance
    The expression High Renaissance, in art history, is a periodizing convention used to denote the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance...

     in Venice
    Venice
    Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

     (d. 1510
    1510 in art
    -Works:* Sandro Botticelli completes painting of Adoration of the Christ Child as a tondo , oil on panel.-Births:* Orazio Alfani – Italian painter of the Renaissance...

    )
  • 1477: Girolamo del Pacchia
    Girolamo del Pacchia
    Girolamo del Pacchia , Italian painter, son of a Hungarian cannon-founder, was born, probably in Siena.Having joined a turbulent club named the Bardotti he disappeared from Siena in 1535, when the club was dispersed, and nothing of a later date is known about him...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     (d. 1533
    1533 in art
    -Works:*Hans Holbein - The Ambassadors*Hans Holbein - Thomas Cromwell -Births:* Giovanni Battista da Ponte – Italian painter active in Venice and his native Bassano...

    )
  • 1477: Lü Ji – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     painter of primarily bird-and-flower painting
    Bird-and-flower painting
    Bird-and-flower painting is a kind of Chinese painting named after its subject matter. Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting....

    s during the Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (d. unknown)
  • 1477: Cesare da Sesto
    Cesare da Sesto
    thumb|220px|Statue of Cesare da Sesto.thumb|220px|Salome, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.Cesare da Sesto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy....

     – Italian painter active primarily in Milan
    Milan
    Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

     (d. 1523
    1523 in art
    -Births:* Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter * Pieter Pourbus – Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter * Stradanus – Flanders-born mannerist painter * Crispin van den Broeck – Flemish painter...

    )
  • 1478: Jan Mabuse
    Jan Mabuse
    Jan Mabuse was the name adopted by the Flemish painter Jan Gossaert; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe , as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503.-Biography:Little is known of his early life...

     – Flemish painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     (d. 1532
    1532 in art
    -Painting:* Lucas Cranach the Elder – Melancholy* Titian – Andrea dei Franceschi*Hans Holbein** Terminus, the Device of Erasmus**Portrait of Georg Gisze-Births:* Sofonisba Anguissola – Italian painter of the Renaissance...

    )
  • 1478: Antonello Gagini
    Antonello Gagini
    Antonello Gagini was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, mainly active in Sicily and Calabria.Antonello was a member of a family of sculptors and artisans, originally from Northern Italy, but active throughout Italy, including Genoa, Florence, and Rome. The family includes his father, Domenico...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor of the High Renaissance
    High Renaissance
    The expression High Renaissance, in art history, is a periodizing convention used to denote the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance...

     (d. 1536
    1536 in art
    -Painting:* Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt * Hans Holbein – Henry VIII* Titian – La Belle-Births:...

    )
  • 1478: Martin Schaffner
    Martin Schaffner
    Martin Schaffner was a German painter and medallist.Schaffner was born and worked primarily in Ulm. His birth year is calculated based on a self-portrait medal he created in 1522 in which he describes himself as 44 years old. He specialized in religious-themed works, often altar pieces. He died in...

     – German painter and medallist (d. 1548
    1548 in art
    -Births:* Baltásar de Echave* Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter * Karel van Mander – Flemish painter, poet and biographer * Cornelis Ketel – Dutch Mannerist painter -Deaths:...

    )
  • 1479: Antoine Juste – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor (d. 1519
    1519 in art
    -Paintings:* Girolamo Alibrandi painted the Presentation at the Temple.* Hans Burckmair painted a panel picture of the Crucifixion, with St. George and the Emperor Heinrich on the wings.* Albrecht Dürer painted St Anne with the Virgin and Child....

    )
  • 1479: Jacob van Utrecht
    Jacob van Utrecht
    Jacob Claesz van Utrecht, also named by his signature Jacobus Traiectensis was a Flemish early Renaissance painter who worked in Antwerp and Lübeck.-Life:...

     – Flemish
    Flanders
    Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

     early Renaissance painter
    Early Renaissance painting
    Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music and science...

     (d. 1525
    1525 in art
    -Events:* Albrecht Dürer - Publishes The Painter's Manual* Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria-Painting:* Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting* Pontormo - Youth in a Pink Cloak...

    )

Deaths

  • 1479: Antonello da Messina
    Antonello da Messina
    Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance...

     – Sicilian
    Sicily
    Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     active during the Italian Renaissance
    Italian Renaissance
    The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

     (b. 1430)
  • 1479: Zanobi Machiavelli
    Zanobi Machiavelli
    Zanobi Machiavelli was an Italian painter and illuminator.Machiavelli specialized in religious themed pieces. Some of his works reside at the National Gallery, London , and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. He died in Pisa in 1479.-References:...

     – Italian early Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     painter (d. 1418)
  • 1478/1481: Antonio Rossellino
    Antonio Rossellino
    Antonio Gamberelli , nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italian sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter Bernardo Rossellino....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor (b. 1427)
  • 1476: Cristoforo di Geremia
    Cristoforo di Geremia
    Cristoforo di Geremia was an Italian medalist and sculptor.Cristoforo was highly skilled in metalwork. Born in Mantua, he worked most of his life in Rome. Cristoforo did a number medals and jewelry for royal and noble commissions, including some pieces done for Borso d'Este. Some of his works...

     – Italian
    Italian people
    The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

     medalist (b. 1410)
  • 1475: Dieric Bouts – Early Netherlandish painter (b. 1410/1420)
  • 1475: Albert van Ouwater
    Albert van Ouwater
    Albert van Ouwater was one of the earliest artists of Early Netherlandish painting working in the Northern Netherlands, as opposed to Flanders in the South of the region.-Biography:...

     – Early Netherlandish painter working in the Northern Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     (b. 1410/1415)
  • 1475: March 6 – Paolo Uccello
    Paolo Uccello
    Paolo Uccello , born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his...

    , Italian painter, draughtsman, mosaicist and designer (b. 1397)
  • 1475/1476: Petrus Christus
    Petrus Christus
    Petrus Christus was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444.-Life:Christus was born in Baarle, near Antwerp and Breda. Long considered a student of and successor to Jan van Eyck, his paintings have sometimes been confused with those of Van Eyck. At the death of Van Eyck in 1441,...

     – Netherlandish painter active in Bruges
    Bruges
    Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....

     (b. 1410/1420)
  • 1474: Du Qiong
    Du Qiong
    Du Qiong ; ca. 1396-1474 was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty .Du was born in Suzhou in the Jiangsu province and was a distant ancestor of Dong Yuan. His style name was 'Using Excellence" and his pseudonyms were 'Tiller of the Eastern Plaines" and...

     – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (b. 1396)
  • 1473: Nikolaus Gerhaert
    Nikolaus Gerhaert
    Nikolaus Gerhaert , also known as Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden, was a sculptor of Dutch origin, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life.- Biography :...

     – Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

     (b. 1420)
  • 1472: Leone Battista Alberti
    Leone Battista Alberti
    Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     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
    Michelozzo
    thumb|250px|[[Palazzo Medici]] in Florence.Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor.-Biography:...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     and sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

     (b. 1396)
  • 1472: Liu Jue
    Liu Jue
    Liu Jue ; ca. 1409-1472 was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty ....

     – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (b. 1409)
  • 1471: Nōami
    Noami
    Nōami was a Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate. An astute art connoisseur, Nōami collected Chinese paintings and other works of art for the shogunate, and served as an advisor in the ways of Japanese tea ceremony, incense and a variety of other elements...

     – Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese painter and renga
    Renga
    ' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....

    poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate
    Ashikaga shogunate
    The , also known as the , was a Japanese feudal military regime, ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga clan.This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from Muromachi Street of Kyoto where the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence...

     (b. 1397)
  • 1470: Jacopo Bellini
    Jacopo Bellini
    Jacopo Bellini was an Italian painter. Jacopo was one of the founders of the Renaissance style of painting in Venice and northern Italy. His sons Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, and his son-in-law Andrea Mantegna, were also famous painters....

     – one of the founders of the Renaissance style
    Early Renaissance painting
    Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music and science...

     of painting in Venice
    Venice
    Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

     and northern Italy (b. 1396)
  • 1470: Barthélemy d'Eyck
    Barthélemy d'Eyck
    Barthélemy d'Eyck, van Eyck or d' Eyck , was an Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France and probably in Burgundy as a painter and manuscript illuminator...

     – Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     as a painter and manuscript illuminator (b. 1420)
  • 1470: Xia Chang
    Xia Chang
    Xia Chang ; ca. 1388-1470 was a Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty .Xia specialized in ink bamboo painting, following the style of Wang Fu. His style name was 'Zhongzhao' and his pseudonyms were 'Yufeng' and 'Zizai jushi' .-References:* Zhongguo gu dai shu hua jian ding zu . 2000. Zhongguo...

     – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     painter during the Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (b. 1388)
  • 1470: Jacques Daret
    Jacques Daret
    Jacques Daret was an Early Netherlandish painter born in Tournai , where he would spend much of his life. Daret spent 15 years as a pupil in the studio of Robert Campin, alongside Rogier or Rogelet de le Pasture , and afterwards...

     – Early Netherlandish
    Early Netherlandish painting
    Early Netherlandish painting refers to the work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and early 16th-century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing Burgundian cities of Bruges and Ghent...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     (b. 1404)
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