France and Italy mark 500 years of da Vinci death
The Presidents of France and Italy would on Thursday mark the 500th anniversary of the death of artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in the Loire Valley town of Amboise.More commonly called Leonardo da Vinci, a polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention and drawing.
He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were due to receive Italy’s Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura at the town’s royal palace.
Later in the day the two presidents would join several hundred young French and Italian citizens who are due to take part in workshops on architecture, literature and science at Chambord, another chateau in the Loire Valley.
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