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Asked by the Duke of Milan to paint a mural for a dining room, Leonardo created The Last Supper. People loved the piece and Leo rocketed to superstardom.

The genius started scribbling down some 20,000 pages of ideas. He spelled his words backwards and reversed each letter so his notes only looked normal when refl ected in a mirror. This 'mirror writing' might have helped protect his ideas from snoops.

Leonardo sketched designs forairplanes, helicopters and parachutes some 500 years before they were actually built. Wow!

Leo started painting the Mona Lisa, the most famous work of art in the world. She appears to smile when you look at her eyes, but then stop when you stare at her lips. Creepy!

When he was a teenager, Leonardo moved to Florence, Italy, where he took painting lessons. Using a technique called tempera, the artist mixed colour pigments with water and egg yolk to make paint.

Asked to be the King of France’s offi cial painter, Leonardo went to, um, France, where he stayed until his death in 1519!

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy (his name literally means 'Leonard from Vinci'). As a child, Leo loved nature and the great outdoors.

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