Leonardo da Vinci between Florence and Milan

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Leonardo da Vinci spent most of his life between Flo­rence and Milan. Art and Science were his masters and his standards. He therefore worked for Italian and French patrons of various city-states in Italy and France. He lived itinerantly. His talent was too much to have a fixed residence and to accommodate himself to a single professional activity. He pleaded the craft of an artist with unparalleled versatility. It shone with magnitude in painting, architecture, literature and in scientific research. Above all in the work of a plastic artist, Leonardo da Vinci painted the most famous canvases in the history of painting. As a scientist, he contributed to the knowledge of modern mechanics with his unusual inventions. As a writer, he recorded some of the best philosophical reflections of human thought. That’s why they call him a genius.