Renato Castellani
Renato Castellani (4 September 1913 in Finale Ligure, Liguria – 28 December 1985 in Rome) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
He won the 1952 Gran Prix of the Cannes Film Festival for his film "Two Cents Worth of Hope".
Carlo Pedretti
Carlo Pedretti (6 January 1928 – 5 January 2018) was an Italian historian.
His area of expertise was the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci.
He was a professor of art history and Armand Hammer Chair in Leonardo Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1960 until his retirement in 1993.
Giacomo Raffaelli
Giacomo Raffaelli (February 2, 1753 - October 11, 1836) was an Italian mosaicist from Rome.
He is the author of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" commissioned by Napoleon I.
The mosaic resides at Vienna in the Minoritenkirche.
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519).
The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI (the Italian national television) and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972.
Castellani wrote the screenplay.
It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France.
The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly five hours.
Marco d'Oggiono
Marco d' Oggiono( c. 1470 – c. 1549) was an Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied.
Anna Maria Brizio
Anna Maria Brizio( 1902- 1982) was professor of art history at the University of Milan, a member of the Commissione Vinciana and an authority on the work of Leonardo da Vinci.
Martin Clayton
Martin Clayton, LVO, FSA,( born 1967) is Head of Prints and Drawings for Royal Collection Trust at Windsor Castle.
He is a specialist in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
Hernando de los Llanos
Hernando de los Llanos( active in the 16th century) was a Spanish painter active primarily around Cuenca for the duration of his career.
Little is known about his life or training, though he appears to have been familiar with the models of Leonardo da Vinci and Domenico Ghirlandaio.
He worked for a time in Valencia in collaboration with Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina.
Hernando los Llanos can be considered to be one of Leonardeschi, at the beginning of 16th century he and Yáñez traveled to Florence and collaborated with Leonardo for his" The Battle of Anghiari" fresco.
Collaboration was fruitful enough, while de los Llanos continued his artistic association on returning home to Spain.
He and Yáñez produced several copies after works of Leonardo da Vinci, including:
Francesco Melzi
Francesco Melzi, or Francesco de Melzi,( 1491 – 1570) was an Italian painter born into a family of the Milanese nobility in Lombardy.
He was one of Leonardo da Vinci ’s pupils.
Martin Kemp (art historian)
Martin Kemp( born 5 March 1942) is emeritus professor of the history of art at University of Oxford.
He is considered one of the world's leading experts on the art of Leonardo da Vinci and visualisation in art and science.

Question: Where did the director of film The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci die?
Answer: Rome