While it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase a piece of Leonardo da Vinci's artwork, his home can be bought for a fraction of the price. Da Vinci's Tuscan Villa and former residence is currently on the market for $14.6 million, CNBC reports. While that price sounds pretty steep, it's a relative bargain considering a piece of da Vinci artwork recently sold for $75 million — and that was after bargaining down from the original asking price of $200 million.
Da Vinci's Tuscan abode offers views of the Mediterranean Sea, and its garden walls were designed by the artist himself. Da Vinci lived in the five-bedroom house for only a short period of time in the early 1500s, but he wasn't the only famous owner of the home: Before serving as the artist's residence, the villa was a military fort owned by Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Princess Elisa Bonaparte, in the 19th century.
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