Le Clos Luce - Amboise
A redbrick manor house decorated with stone dressings, Le Clos-Luce was acquired by Charles VIII in 1490. He had a small chapel built for his queen, Anne of Brittany.
In 1516, Francois I invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and lodged him at Le Clos-Luce where the great Renaissance man lived until his death on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67.
The basement houses the museum of da Vinci's "fabulous machines" which displays a collection of models of the machines invented by the fertile genius who was a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, architect, engineer and scholar, and was four centuries ahead of his time.
Le Clos Luce - Amboise
A redbrick manor house decorated with stone dressings, Le Clos-Luce was acquired by Charles VIII in 1490. He had a small chapel built for his queen, Anne of Brittany.
In 1516, Francois I invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and lodged him at Le Clos-Luce where the great Renaissance man lived until his death on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67.
The basement houses the museum of da Vinci's "fabulous machines" which displays a collection of models of the machines invented by the fertile genius who was a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, architect, engineer and scholar, and was four centuries ahead of his time.