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| | Leonardo Da Vinci: Last Supper, picture, painting, Mona Lisa, drawing, invention, art, notebook, flying machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Leonardo was taken on not for his artistic abilities, but as chief architect and engineer to supervise the fortification of central Italy's papal territories, and his work often took Leonardo away from Florence, to Urbino and other cities in central Italy. |
 | | Additionally, Leonardo believed that the earth came out of the sea, and some historians would argue it is the sea we observe in the background; and finally there is the lady herself in the foreground who is, many agree, pregnant. |
 | | Leonardo reportedly kept to himself during these years; uninterested in the great building project of the Basilica of St. Peter, such work went instead to a younger generation, including Michelangelo and Raphael, the latter who was widely known to borrow from Leonardo's ideas. |
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