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Mona Lisa Began:1503 Finished:1519 Many believe the Mona Lisa to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini Giocondo, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo. Since 1804 now in the Lourve Museum in Paris.
The Last Supper Began:1495 Finished:1498 Leonardo painted it on the back wall of the dining hall at the Dominican convent of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Italy. The reason the painting is laid out the way it is is that Leonardo was trying to "extend the room", to make it look like Jesus and his companions were sitting at the end of the hall.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci or Leonardo Da vinci was born April 15 1452 and died May 2 1519 when he was 67 years old. He wasnt just an artist he was also a sculptor architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, scientist and a writer. He was raised by his single father in Vinci,Italy. Later people started calling him "Renaissance Man" because of his amazing artwork his rival famous artist Michaelangelo was called a "Renaissance Man" too. Leonardo was known for his 2 most famous paintings Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Fun Fact Leonardo was a vegetarian who loved animals and hated war, yet he used his engineer and inventor skills to invent deadly weapons to help during the time of war.
Leonardo Da Vinci
