Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share
Around the mid-1470s Leonardo painted the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Around the mid-1470s Leonardo painted the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share. The panel is Verrocchio's heading with a pupil's part. Leonardo da Vinci's documented role is: He painted a share of a workshop altarpiece. Verrocchio remained master; later Uffizi housing is a carrier.
Context
Workshop shares are normal. Sharing the altarpiece with Verrocchio is required. The setting of Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share is the public file around 1475-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Medium confidence on the split. Mixed effects of Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share are separate paths.
Why it matters
Improving path from Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share on 1475-01-01. A documented workshop share is an education path of medium confidence on exact brush-split. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Leonardo da Vinci
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
He painted a share of a workshop altarpiece. Verrocchio remained master; later Uffizi housing is a carrier.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLeonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1475 · verified
A documented workshop share is an education path of medium confidence on exact brush-split.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.07 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Leonardo, painters' company 1472Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Uffizi — Leonardo and Florentine workshop heritageGallerie degli Uffizi · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Uffizi — Baptism of Christ, Verrocchio and Leonardo at https://www.uffizi.it/en (opens in a new tab) (Gallerie degli Uffizi). Independent locator: Britannica — Leonardo, Baptism angel at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Uffizi — Baptism of Christ, Verrocchio and Leonardo (https://www.uffizi.it/en (opens in a new tab); Gallerie degli Uffizi). Independent carrier: Britannica — Leonardo, Baptism angel (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share under 1475-01-01 for Leonardo da Vinci. Established: a sourced public record of Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share under 1475-01-01.
Shared responsibility is part of Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share. Naming Leonardo da Vinci does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1475-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorLeonardo da Vinci
- contributed toFactLeonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Leonardo paints the left angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ as a workshop share. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ldv-baptism-angel
https://factrail.ai/facts/ldv-baptism-angel
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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