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It is true that Leonardo da Vinci lived in Milan until 1499 when the city was captured by the French forces |
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Leonardo da Vinci was born in or near the small town of Vinci, a day's journey from Florence |
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Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting were first published in 1651 in Paris from his scattered notes as Treatise on Painting |
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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the very few artists whose reputation has from his own time onwards always remained at the highest level |
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When Leonardo da Vinci came to Florence as a young man, he became the Florentine painter Verrocchio's apprentice |