\paperw3990 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b LEONARDO DA VINCI\par
\b0 Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer\par
(Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519)\par
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He served
his apprenticeship in VerrocchioÆs workshop at Florence, and then spent a long time at the court of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, devoting himself to scientific and artistic research as complementary activities. He spent his last years as a guest of Francis
I in France. A multifaceted genius, he probed every area of science in search of the laws that govern nature. He saw art as the synthesis of his experimental science.