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Italian painter, sculptor, architect,
engineer, and scientist, one of the greatest
figures of the Italian Renaissance, active in
Florence, Milan, and from 1516 France. As
state engineer and court painter to the duke
of Milan, he painted the Last Supper mural
about 1495 (Sta Maria delle Grazie, Milan),
and on his return to Florence painted the
Mona Lisa about 1503-06 (Louvre, Paris). His
notebooks and drawings show an immensely
inventive and enquiring mind, studying
aspects of the natural world from anatomy to
aerodynamics. Leonardo was born at Vinci in
Tuscany and studied under Verrocchio in
Florence in the 1470s. His earliest dated
work is a sketch of the Tuscan countryside
1473 (Uffizi, Florence); his early works
include drawings, portraits, and religious
scenes, such as the unfinished Adoration of
the Magi (Uffizi). About 1482 he went to the
court of Lodovico Sforza in Milan. In 1500 he
returned to Florence (where he was architect
and engineer to Cesare Borgia in 1502), and
then to Milan 1506. He went to France in 1516
and died at Chateau Cloux, near Amboise, on
the Loire. Apart from portraits, religious
themes, and historical paintings, Leonardo's
greatest legacies were his notebooks and
drawings. He influenced many of his
contemporary artists, including Michelangelo,
Raphael, and Giorgione.