# Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo

Date: 1515

## The fact

Around 1513–16 Leonardo painted Saint John the Baptist as a late easel work kept with him. The Louvre is a later door. It is not the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci's documented role is: He painted the late Saint John. It stayed with him into France; Louvre housing is later.

## Context

Ambiguous gesture and sfumato are the method. Sharing later possession with Francis's collection is required as a limit. The setting of Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo is the public file around 1515-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Louvre — Saint John the Baptist, Leonardo at https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-mona-lisa (Musée du Louvre). Independent locator: Britannica — Leonardo, late paintings at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Louvre — Saint John the Baptist, Leonardo (https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-mona-lisa; Musée du Louvre). Independent carrier: Britannica — Leonardo, late paintings (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Louvre — Saint John the Baptist, Leonardo (https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-mona-lisa; Musée du Louvre).

## Significance

Improving path from Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo on 1515-01-01. A late experimental figure is an education-method path. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo under 1515-01-01 for Leonardo da Vinci. Established: a sourced public record of Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo under 1515-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with Mona Lisa as the same canvas. Mixed effects of Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Saint John the Baptist is painted as a late easel work kept with Leonardo. Naming Leonardo da Vinci does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1515-01-01 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/the-palace/the-mona-lisa
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ldv-saint-john