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Leonardo da Vinci: Self-portrait
Featured Biography Leonardo da Vinci

The most praiseworthy form of painting is the one that most resembles what it imitates.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal and whose Last Supper (1495–98) and Mona Lisa (1503–06) are widely influential paintings, was born this day in 1452.

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