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Last edited Tue Nov 5, 2019, 11:45 AM - Edit history (1)
You cannot visit the town of Amboise and its impressive chateau without also visiting nearby Clos-luce, where you will learn, in a well presented indoor and outdoor exhibition, of the last years of Leonardo de Vinci (1516-1519) surprisingly spent here in Amboise in the Loire Valley.
Shortly after his patron Giuliano died in 1516, Leonardo had been enticed here by the arts loving Francois I with the promise of a pension and comfortable residence. Few demands were puton him other than to be available for intellectual conversation, otherwise he was ”free to think, dream and work”. Leonardo had crossed the Alps on a mule carrying with him some of his precious artwork including the Mona Lisa – which explains why it hangs in Paris and not Rome...
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo de Vinci
Read More, https://www.experienceloire.com/clos-luce.htm
Portrait of Leonardo in later life.
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