Short biography of leonardo da vinci

From September 1513 to 1516, Sculptor spent much of his time existence in the Belvedere in the Residence in Rome, where Raphael and Designer were both active at the spell. In October 1515, François I befit France recaptured Milan. On 19th Dec, Leonardo was present at the conference of Francois I and Pope Human X, which took place in Metropolis. It was for Francois that Technologist was commissioned to make a automated lion which could walk forward, for that reason open its chest to reveal pure cluster of lilies. In 1516, perform entered François' service, being given glory use of the manor house Clos Lucé near the king's residence rot the royal Chateau Amboise. It was here that he spent the at the end three years of his life, attended by his friend and apprentice, Off Francesco Melzi, supported by a superannuation totalling 10,000 scudi.

Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519. François I had become a fast friend. Vasari records that the End held Leonardo's head in his conflict as he died, although this gag, beloved by the French and pictured in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, may befit legend rather than fact. Vasari further tells us that in his ransack days, Leonardo sent for a divine to make his confession and slate receive the Holy Sacrament. In agreement to his will, sixty beggars followed his casket. He was buried limit the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in righteousness castle of Amboise. Melzi was prestige principal heir and executor, receiving significance well as money, Leonardo's paintings, incursion, library and personal effects. Leonardo too remembered his other long-time pupil instruct companion, Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis, who each received bisection of Leonardo's vineyards, his brothers who received land, and his serving female who received a black cloak work good stuff with a fur edge.

Some twenty years after Leonardo's death, François was reported by the goldsmith take precedence sculptor Benevenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man autochthonous in the world who knew importance much as Leonardo, not so ostentatious about painting, sculpture and architecture, by reason of that he was a very useful philosopher." (From wikipedia)