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Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept

On 2 May 1519 Leonardo died at Amboise still holding pictures and papers. Melzi and the French court became the next keepers. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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On 2 May 1519 Leonardo died at Amboise still holding pictures and papers. Melzi and the French court became the next keepers. Burial plaques are later. Leonardo da Vinci's documented role is: He died at Clos Lucé. Melzi inherited papers; pictures stayed in royal orbit. Death is not a policy.

Context

He had not printed the anatomy. Sharing the Nachlass with Melzi is required. The setting of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept is the public file around 1519-05-02. Driver personal-data-protection 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. Mixed effects of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept are separate paths.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept on 1519-05-02. Dying with an unpublished corpus records continuity of opacity, not a new extraction. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    He died at Clos Lucé. Melzi inherited papers; pictures stayed in royal orbit. Death is not a policy.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLeonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.15 · Effect from 2 May 1519 · verified

    Dying with an unpublished corpus records continuity of opacity, not a new extraction.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Château d'Amboise — Leonardo at Amboise heritageChâteau d'Amboise · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Leonardo, painters' company 1472Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Château d'Amboise — Leonardo death heritage at https://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Château d'Amboise). Independent locator: Britannica — Leonardo, death 2 May 1519 at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Château d'Amboise — Leonardo death heritage (https://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/ (opens in a new tab); Château d'Amboise). Independent carrier: Britannica — Leonardo, death 2 May 1519 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept under 1519-05-02 for Leonardo da Vinci. Established: a sourced public record of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept under 1519-05-02.

Shared responsibility is part of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept. Naming Leonardo da Vinci does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1519-05-02 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.

  1. ActorLeonardo da Vinci
  2. contributed toFactLeonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ldv-death-1519

https://factrail.ai/facts/ldv-death-1519

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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