Leonardo da Vinci (born April 15, 1452 in Vinci and died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise) was a

Florentine Italian Renaissance polymath. It was both painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist,
artist, botanist, scientist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and
urbanist. He died with his faithful Francesco Melzi, whom he bequeathed his projects, designs
and paintings. After spending his childhood in his hometown, Leonardo studied with the famous
Florentine painter Andrea Verrocchio. His first works of importance were created in Milan in the
service of Duke Ludovico Sforza. He then worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent the
last years of his life in France, at the invitation of King Francis I.