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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Florentine painter, architect, sculptor and engineer, born in 1452 in the Villa Anchiana near Vinci above Empoli. As a painter, Leonardo was a pupil of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, where he lived from his youth until about 1482. Afterwards he went to the court of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, where he remained until 1498. There he was engaged, amongst other things, on the preparatory workshop for the unfinished equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza and on the Last Supper in the refectory of S. Maria delle Grazie. The ravages of war drove him from Milan, and unti l1506 he was again to be found in Florence, where he worked from 1503 on the cartoon for the mural of the Battle of Anghiari in the Palazzo Vecchio. Between 1506 and 1513 he returned to Milan and subsequently went to Rome, where he remained for most of the ensuing three years. After 1517, having accepted an invitation from the French King François I, he lived a withdrawn life in Cloux near Amboise until his death in 1519. |
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