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Leonardo da Vinci

PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 28: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall views Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting as she visits the Louvre Museum on May 28, 2013 in Paris France. Camilla is on her first overseas solo engagement for a two day visit to Paris in support of the homeless charity EMMAUS of which she is patron.

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About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( pronunciation (help·info), April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Helen Gardner says "The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent...His mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".

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