page_title: 1470s in art
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: 1470s in art / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: English: Left panel: The Beheading of John the Baptist. Center panel: Sacra Conversazione with Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Catherine of Alexandria, and Barbara. Right panel: Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos.
context_page_description: The decade of the 1470s in art involved some significant events.
context_section_description: 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
  Cosimo Rosselli paints Madonna and Child
  Cosimo 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: Hans Memling paints the Portrait of Maria Portinari
  c.1470-5: Piero del Pollaiolo 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 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
  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
  Piero del Pollaiolo completes painting Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian for the Pucci Chapel of Santissima Annunziata, Florence and his brother Antonio paints Hercules and the Hydra and (probably during this decade) Apollo and Daphne
  Hans Memling paints the Diptych of Jean de Cellier (Louvre)
  1476: Joseph Ibn Hayyim completes illumination of the "Kennicott" Hebrew Bible
  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
  c.1479-80: Hans Memling paints Allegory with a Virgin
caption: Hans Memling St John Altarpiece (completed c.1479), Bruges
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