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Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519, at Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France. He was sixty-seven years old. Francis I, the king of France, is said to have held him in his arms.
— Isaacson, Chapter 32 — France; Vasari, Lives of the Artists
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In 1516, at age sixty-four, Leonardo accepted the invitation of King Francis I of France and moved to Amboise, where he would spend the last three years of his life.
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