Leonardo returns to Milan, now under French control, and finds a new patron in Charles II d’Amboise. The Mona Lisa is not left behind as a completed, delivered commission. Leonardo keeps the painting and continues to work on it for years. It becomes an increasingly personal work.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Painter, engineer and investigator of nature who worked in Florence, Milan, Rome and France. His service to the Sforza, Cesare Borgia, the Medici and Francis I connects his artistic work with the courts and political networks of his time.
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