Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Florence who studied art under Andrea Verrocchio and spent much of his career in Milan and France. He is renowned as one of the greatest artists of all time for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but was also a scientist, engineer, musician and poet who kept extensive notebooks documenting his wide-ranging knowledge and inventions. Da Vinci died in 1519 at the age of 67 in Amboise, France.