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| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian artistic and scientific genius of the Renaissance. He trained in Florence under Verrocchio and painted the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ for the monks of S Donato a Scopeto in 1481. in 1482 Leonardo da Vinci became painter, engineer and designer to Duke Ludovico Sforza in Milan where he painted the fresco of the ‘Last Supper’ and the first version of the ‘Virgin of the Rocks.’ After the French invasion of Milan in 1499 Leonardo da Vinci returned to Florence and completed paintings such as the ‘Battle of Anghiari’ for the Palazzo Vecchio, ‘The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and St Anne’ and the ‘Mona Lisa’ now in the Louvre. Some of his paintings were left unfinished and others did not survive because of the experimental techniques he used. His notebooks reveal his wide range of interests including anatomy, botany, geology, hydraulics, and mechanics. |
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