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	Biography
	Personal Data
	Leonardo da Vinci
	born on Apr 15, 1452 in Anchiano, Vinci, Italy died on May 2, 1519 died in Amboise, France
	biographies
	bio by Martin Kausal

	Works
	codexes
	Codex Atlanticus has about 1300 sheets stored in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
	Codex Leicester Page 2A/2r codex American Museum of Natural History
	Codex Trivulzianus
	Codex on the Flight of Birds
	paintings & drawings
	Mona Lisa size : 77 x 53 [cm] painted on : poplar-wood in the Louvre in Paris
	Last Supper
	drawings Leonardo some 40 drawings
	paintings WebMuseum Ginevra de' Benci, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Virgin of the Rocks

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	WebLinks
	official website [Web]
	database LeoNet
	guide Museum of Science Boston
	guide Why is Mona Lisa smiling?

Jan 22, 2003
The first comprehensive survey of Leonardo's drawings opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York [article CNN]


May 2, 1519

Leonardo da Vinci dies in Amboise, France.
Last resting place Chapel of St. Hubert


1503-1506

Leonardo is painting the famous Mona Lisa (La Gioconda),
now exposed in the museum Le Louvre in Paris, France


Jun 1472

Leonardo is listed in the red book of
painters in Florence (Campagnia de Pittori)


1466

Leonardo moves to Florence
and begins an apprenticeship in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio


1457

Leonardo moves to his grandfather in Vinci


Apr 15, 1452

Leonardo is born in Anchiano, some 3 km from Vinci near Florence, Italy

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