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

Date: 1519

## The fact

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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [personal-data-protection](/drivers/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. Do not store a later tomb plaque as his act. Mixed effects of Leonardo dies at Amboise still holding pictures and papers the French court kept are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Château d'Amboise — Leonardo death heritage (https://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/; Château d'Amboise).

## Significance

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 Dying with an unpublished corpus records continuity of opacity, not a new extraction.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

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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.

## People

- Leonardo da Vinci: https://factrail.ai/people/leonardo-da-vinci

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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