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The Last Leonardo - A Masterpiece, a Mystery and the Dirty World of Art (Paperback)
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The Last Leonardo - A Masterpiece, a Mystery and the Dirty World of Art (Paperback)
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In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it
a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable
research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a
masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the
centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting, the
Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. In the words of its
discoverer, the image of Christ as saviour of the world is 'the
rarest thing on the planet by the greatest human being who ever
lived'. Its dazzling price also makes it the world's most expensive
painting. For two centuries art dealers had searched in vain for
the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator
Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly
varying quality had been executed by Leonardo's assistants in the
first half of the sixteenth century. But where was the original by
the master himself? In November 2017, Christie's auction house
announced they had it. But did they? The Last Leonardo tells a
thrilling tale of a spellbinding icon invested with the power to
make or break the reputations of scholars, billionaires, kings and
sheikhs. Lewis takes us to Leonardo's studio in Renaissance Italy;
to the court of Charles I and the English Civil War; to Holland,
Moscow and Louisiana; to the galleries, salerooms and restorer's
workshop as the painting slowly, painstakingly, emerged from
obscurity. The vicissitudes of the highly secretive art market are
charted across five centuries. It is a twisting tale of geniuses
and oligarchs, double-crossings and disappearances, where we're
never quite certain what to believe. Above all, it is an adventure
story about the search for lost treasure, and a quest for the
truth.
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