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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