Chateau damboise leonardo da vinci biography
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Leonardo da Vinci
Meet one of the greatest minds of all times
From his home Tuscany to his death at the Clos Lucé on May the 2 nd , Leonardo da Vinci has tried to unveil the secrets of nature and physics, which are the basis of his work.
Five hundred years later, Leonardo da Vinci is still present in our daily life through his heritage. He keeps fascinating us and inspires novelists, filmmakers and even the videogame industry. This man, dreaming of making men fly and imagining the future, this painter, inventor, engineer, scientific, humanist and philosopher,remains immortal.
The Château du Clos Lucé, bearing the mark left by the Master, has a mission of giving an overview of the work of Leonardo to the general public. From the beginning to the end of the visit, experience this funny feeling, that the genius was just there, just a moment ago.
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Leonardo da Vinci A modern-day genius
Continuing his career in Venice, he also spent time in Mantua, Rome and Bologna, where he pursued painting, anatomical studies and scientific experiments, among other things. The Mona Lisa, which he painted between and , remained with him for the rest of his life. And when Leonardo left Rome to work in France, disappointed bygd the unimportant assignments he was given, it was with his Mona Lisa that he took up residence at the manor house of Cloux d&#;Amboise, now known as Clos Lucé.
François I&#;s intentions were clear when he invited the Florentine genius to Touraine. While he wished, as a true patron of the arts, to leave him &#;free to dream, think and work&#;, he also appointed him &#;First Painter, First Engineer and First Architect to the King&#;, as he intended to organize celebrations as extraordinary as those at the Medici court.
Leonardo da Vinci thus became &#;Master of Entertainments&#;, staging the court&#;s receptions,
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His biography
Born April 14, in Vinci in the province of Florence in Tuscany, Leonardo da Vinci is both a man of universal spirit, a painter, an engineer, a sculptor, an architect, a musician, a poet, a philosopher, a genius writer and scientist.
First raised by his grandparents in the cult of observation and curiosity, the young Leonardo finds his father in Florence at the age of ten years. Detecting in his son talents for drawing, his father placed him as an apprentice in the studio of the famous Andrea del Verrocchio where he rubbed shoulders with other gifted people named Botticelli or Le Perugin. He will stay there for more than 10 years, developing his art and his technique.
During the following decades, between Florence and Milan, Leonardo da Vinci then worked on prestigious commissions, notably on behalf of the powerful Medici and Borgia families, or even at the court of Ludovico Sforza. In , after the loss of his last protector -Julian de Medici-, confronted with the