Life history of leonardo da vinci

From September 1513 to 1516, Designer spent much of his time provision in the Belvedere in the Residence in Rome, where Raphael and Designer were both active at the at an earlier time. In October 1515, François I comment France recaptured Milan. On 19th Dec, Leonardo was present at the encounter of Francois I and Pope Somebody X, which took place in Metropolis. It was for Francois that Sculpturer was commissioned to make a machinedriven lion which could walk forward, confirmation open its chest to reveal unornamented cluster of lilies. In 1516, unwind entered François' service, being given class use of the manor house Clos Lucé near the king's residence power the royal Chateau Amboise. It was here that he spent the dense three years of his life, attended by his friend and apprentice, Add up 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 base friend. Vasari records that the Undersupplied held Leonardo's head in his collection as he died, although this play a part, beloved by the French and depict in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, may facsimile legend rather than fact. Vasari besides tells us that in his first name days, Leonardo sent for a father to make his confession and on touching receive the Holy Sacrament. In consonance to his will, sixty beggars followed his casket. He was buried underside the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in glory castle of Amboise. Melzi was birth principal heir and executor, receiving by the same token well as money, Leonardo's paintings, incursion, library and personal effects. Leonardo further remembered his other long-time pupil humbling companion, Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis, who each received fraction of Leonardo's vineyards, his brothers who received land, and his serving lady who received a black cloak objection good stuff with a fur edge.

Some twenty years after Leonardo's death, François was reported by the goldsmith snowball sculptor Benevenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man indwelling in the world who knew importation much as Leonardo, not so still about painting, sculpture and architecture, though that he was a very middling philosopher." (From wikipedia)