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Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452. He was born out of wedlock to Florentine notary Ser Piero and a young peasant women named Caterina. He was raised by his father and stepmothers.  Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci"; his full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci". The inclusion of the title "ser" indicated that Leonardo's father was a gentleman.

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When he was 14, he became an apprentice to the artist Andrea Del Verrocchio, who was one of the greatest artists of the age. He was classified a master by the Guild of St. Luke when he was 20.

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May 2, 1519, is when Leonardo passed away. In 1506, Leonardo returned to Milan, and was there until 1513. In 1517, at the invitation of the French king Francis I, Leonardo moved to the Chateau of Cloux, near Amboise in France, where he died on 2 May 1519.

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Renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic Vitruvian Man. He also devised such futuristic technology as tanks, concentrated solar power, and adding machines, and spearheaded some vital breakthroughs in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

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Someone similar to Leonardo is, Michelangelo. They were both very successful painter, and inventors. They both had created some of the most famous paintings known today, like the Mona Lisa and paintings that covered the ceiling.