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Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Vinci, in the province of Firenze (Florence), in modern day Italy. He died in 1519 at the age of 71 near Tours, France. Da Vinci was apprenticed at the age of 14 to the Florentine painter, Andrea del Verrocchio. He painted the Last Supper in 1498 while living in Milan, where the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, was his patron from 1482 to 1499. He painted the Mona Lisa between 1502 and 1506 in Florence, where he served Cesare Borgia as a military engineer. Da Vinci was in Rome while Michelangelo and Raphael were working there. [More...]

Michelangelo Bounarroti was born in 1475 near Arezzo, in Tuscany, not far from Florence, where he was raised. Michelangelo died in 1564 in Rome at the age of 88. Michelangelo apprenticed under the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Between 1490 to 1494, he patronized by the Medici, attending their court, but he left Florence in 1494 after the Medici were expelled from Florence after the rise of Savonarola, going first to Venice, and then to Bologna. In 1496, Michelangelo moved to Rome, where created one of his most famous sculptures, the Pieta. Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499, completing his most famous sculpture, his David in 1504. In 1505, he was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel. [More...]

Raphael was born in 1483 in the Duchy of Urbino, in the Marche region, Italy. He died in 1520 in Rome at the age of 37. His father, Giovanni Santi, was a painter in the court of the Duke of Urbino. His father placed him as an assistant in the workshop of Pietro Perugino to help further his training. Raphael was orphaned when his father died when he was 11 (his mother had died three years earlier), but his father's workshop continued under the supervision of his step-mother. He became a master in his own right in 1501, taking over sole management of the workshop as his own. In 1508, Raphael moved to Rome where Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X were his patrons. Raphael, who had never married, died from a sudden fever at the age of 37. [More...]