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Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 · 15th century

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, engineer and scientist of the High Renaissance, born at Vinci near Florence. In Milan, where he served Duke Ludovico Sforza from the early 1480s, he painted the Last Supper; his other works include the Mona Lisa and notebooks of studies in anatomy, mechanics and nature. He died in France in the service of Francis I.

Leonardo da Vinci
Image: Attributed to Francesco Melzi · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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