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4. Old age and death




            Leonardo spent much of  his




            old years at the court of  Pope




            Leo  X,  which  was  the  pope




            during the time. This was when




            Michelangelo and Raphael, two




            of  the most prominent artists




            during this time was active.




            Leonardo made a mechanical lion                                                                                              to France and worked for the




            that would walk for its own and                                                                                              French monarch. He lived in




            then open its chest to reveal a                                                                                              France until he died at the age of




            cluster of  lilies. Then he moved                                                                                            67 in 1519. He had a lavish late

                                                                                                                                         life with a large pension that was
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