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What was his family like???

Leonardo Da Vinci was the illegitimate (born to unmarried parents) son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary (a public official who certifies legal documents) of Florence, and a local woman, Caterina.

Leonardo Da Vinci's father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera. His father married four times and produced children by his two later marriages.

Leonardo Da Vinci got seven brothers, and he was never married.

What did he do???

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. He was one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance.

He was left-handedness.

He was a man with great personal appeal, kindness, and generosity.

He is regarded as being the father of several scientific fields such as ichnology and paleontology as well as architecture.

At the age of about fourteen Leonardo was apprenticed by his father to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio.

He was a genius scientist, inventor and painter of the European Renaissance. Modern scholars call him "the perfect representative of the Renaissance" and the only versatile person in human history. His greatest achievement is painting, his masterpiece "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "Rock Room" His works such as the Madonna reflect his exquisite artistic attainments.

In 1482--1499 Da Vinci first became famous in milan as a musician rather than a painter or an inventor.During this period, his paintings were few, but his unparalleled talent was greatly favored by Ludovico Sforza of Milan.

Da Vinci in 1499 to escape the war in places such as mantua and Venice and carry out some scientific research.

In 1500 Da Vinci returned to Florence and began working on the Mona Lisa.The Mona Lisa used perspective and other painting methods.After that, Da Vinci went to milan again and continued to serve the court of milan.

In 1516, Da Vinci went to France and finally settled in angbovas.

In his later years, he rarely painted, concentrated on scientific research, and left a large number of manuscripts when he died. The content is almost everything from physics to mathematics to biological anatomy.

Dionysus was an important mythological figure, as he had the innate ability to exude ecstasy and influence individuals. The primary objective of his cult was to inspire art and literature. 

Dionysus; born to Zeus and a mortal, was a Demigod; who invented wine. Thus, being granted the position of a God by his father.

Dionysus is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth, later considered a patron of the arts.

In Greek mythology, he is presented as a son of Zeus and the mortal Semele , thus semi-divine or heroic: and as son of Zeus and Persephone or Demeter, thus both fully divine.

The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed.

Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish".

Dionysus's mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of king Cadmus of Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods.

Hera, still jealous of Zeus' infidelity and the fact that Dionysus was alive, arranged for the Titans to kill him. The Titans ripped him to pieces;however, Rhea brought him back to life.

Dionysus wandered the world actively spreading his cult.

The festival for Dionysus was held in the spring when vines would start bearing leaves.

Dionysus became one of the most important gods in everyday life and was associated with several key concepts. One was rebirth after death; Another concept was that under the influence of wine, one could feel possessed by a greater power.

Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. Seymour is a princess, Zeus fell in love with her, and she rendezvous with her. After the day, Hera was very embarrassed and became a princess's nanny. Princess Sissi asked Zeus to see Zeus's true body to verify Zeus’s Her love. Zeus was not the princess's request, but the original form, Raytheon, and the result was that Semele was burned to death in the thunderbolt. Zeus rescued the baby of the moon, Dionysus, and sewed him in his thigh until the foot He was taken out of the month, because he was born from Zeus's thigh for the second time, so his name is also the meaning of 'born 2 times' in ancient Greek.

After Dionysus's adulthood, Hera still refused to let him go, making him mad and wandering around. In the process of wandering on the earth, he taught the peasants to make wine, so he became a god of wine and one of the favorite gods of ancient Greek farmers. He was commemorated by the goddess of the gods every year, and the ancient Greek tragedy was developed.