where was leonardo da vinci when he died?
Amboise
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 Leonardo died at Clos Lucé , on 2 May 1519 . Francis I had become a close friend . Vasari records that the king held Leonardo 's head in his arms as he died , although this story , beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres , Ménageot and other French artists , as well as by Angelica Kauffman , may be legend rather than fact . Vasari states that in his last days , Leonardo sent for a priest to make his confession and to receive the Holy Sacrament . In accordance with his will , sixty beggars followed his casket . Melzi was the principal heir and executor , receiving as well as money , Leonardo 's paintings , tools , library and personal effects . Leonardo also remembered his other long @-@ time pupil and companion , Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis , who each received half of Leonardo 's vineyards , his brothers who received land , and his serving woman who received a black cloak " of good stuff " with a fur edge . Leonardo da Vinci was buried in the Chapel of Saint @-@ Hubert in Château d 'Amboise , in France . 

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 The two men saw an extraordinarily dense cloud rising rapidly above the mountain . This cloud and a request by messenger for an evacuation by sea prompted the elder Pliny to order rescue operations in which he sailed away to participate . His nephew attempted to resume a normal life , but that night a tremor awoke him and his mother , prompting them to abandon the house for the courtyard . Further tremors near dawn caused the population to abandon the village and caused wave action in the Bay of Naples . 

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 Leonardo 's fame within his own lifetime was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy , and was claimed to have supported him in his old age and held him in his arms as he died . Interest in Leonardo and his work has never diminished . Crowds still queue to see his best @-@ known artworks , T @-@ shirts still bear his most famous drawing , and writers continue to hail him as a genius while speculating about his private life , as well as about what one so intelligent actually believed in . 

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 The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household , although Honoré was not turned away entirely . Instead , in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion , with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him " , while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles [ 32 km ] outside Paris . 

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 = = = Florence : Leonardo 's artistic and social background = = = 
