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)
1478
Leonardo da Vinci paints either The Benois Madonna or the Madonna with the Carnation
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)