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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leonardo da Vinci |
 | | Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scholar, and one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance; born at Vinci, near Florence, in 1452; died at Cloux, near Amboise, France, 2 May, 1519, natural son of Ser Piero, a notary, and a peasant woman. |
 | | The famous head of Christ in crayon at the Brera seems to be a study of Sodoma or of Cesare da Sesto and to have no relation to the "Last Supper". |
 | | Breve vita de Leonardo da Vinci, scritta da anonimo del 1500, manuscript of the Magliabecchiana, at Florence in Archiv. |
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