The da Vinci codes

I am intrigued by what the makers of "Da Vinci's Demons," say the movie is about on their official website. 

The mini-narrative about Leonardo da Vinci makes him look like a Medieval Prometheus, the Titan who by stealing fire for men from the Gods was said to have enabled progress and civilization of humanity.

Prometheus had fallen in love with humanity. So he risked his life to defy the gods. One could say that Prometheus fought for something larger than himself.

But did da Vinci represent anything more than his own interests, to secure for himself permanent patronage for his art? To imply that the genius of his age was representing an ideology that transcended his needs, is to see the past through the lens of modernity.

Leonardo was indeed a man of the Enlightenment, in the sense that he was in a transitional era, when Europe was moving from "dark" to "light." But did he fight to "set knowledge free" from the darkness of the dominant paradigms of  the Dark ages--those of religion and faith? 

I am certain that da Vinci was a far more ambiguous figure than that of a one-sided man of reason, worshipping single-mindedly at the altar of secular knowledge. Neither do I believe that the "Dark ages" were dominated by religious fundamentalists similar to the Taliban, or were totalitarians. 

Something tells me that da Vinci has been co opted by Hollywood for waging by proxy an ideological battle that is entirely contemporary.