I am an oil on wood painting by Leonardo daVinci. Leda and the swan is a Greek mythoglogy story in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces and rapes Leda. Leda then gave birth to his children, Helena and Polydeuces, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband and the king of Sparta, Tyndareus. Some stories say she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. Leonardo daVinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. One of the most diversly talented person to ever live, he is also considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. A man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination", Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. He epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal (humanism = a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism).
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* the name Leonardo daVinci translates to Leonard from the town of Vinci
* Leonardo was raised by his single father (he was the love child of Caterina, a peasant, and Ser Piero, a lawyer and landlord)
* he was left-handed
* daVinci left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work
* he was a vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons
* he invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road
* Leonardo daVinci had dyslexia, which made it hard for others to steal his work
* he dug into graves at night and stole corpses to study the human anatomy
* he was an accomplished lyre player
(facts found at DaVinci Poster and Discover)
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