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Saint John the Baptist Leonardo da Vinci, 1514
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Saint John the Baptist

Leonardo da Vinci · 1514

Why it's great

A young man with long curly hair points to the sky and smiles with a mysterious smile. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in about 1514, and it is his last painting.

Where to see it

📍 Louvre MuseumSaint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France

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About the artist

Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 · born in Anchiano · died in Clos Lucé

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor and scientist, born in 1452. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of notebook pages with drawings of flying machines, anatomy, water and plants. He died in France in 1519.

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