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Died of STROKE
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Mona Lisa
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Da Vinci became a military engineer inventing things like cannons, diving suits, tanks, etc.
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Diving suit
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Last supper
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Giant Crossbow
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Armoured Car
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Anemometer
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Around 1482, he began to paint his first commissioned work, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence’s San Donato, a Scopeto monastery. That he never finished.
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In 1482 Leanardo made a 16-foot-tall equestrian statue, in bronze, to honor dynasty founder Francesco Sforza. Sometime later a battle annihilated the amazing sculpture and Sforza was overthrown.
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Triple Barrel Cannon
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When he was 20, in 1472, the painters’ guild of Florence offered da Vinci membership, but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master.
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Da Vinci was born in a farmhouse outside the village of Anchiano in Tuscany, Italy (about 18 miles west of Florence) on April 15, 1452