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Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts (Hardcover)
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The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered
for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading
role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in
London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch.
In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the
world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the collection
of Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Salvator Mundi may be seen as the
devotional counterpart to the Mona Lisa, having an extraordinary,
communicative presence. The artist has reformed the very
traditional subject matter in a number of ways. The elusiveness of
Christ's expression suggests his spiritual origins beyond the world
of the senses. The traditional sphere of the earth has been
transformed into a rock-crystal orb and signifies a crystalline
sphere of the heavens. In addition to its spiritual dimension, the
image exploits Leonardo's optical knowledge and his growing sense
of the illusiveness of seeing. Only the blessing hand is in
reasonably sharp focus, with his features softly veiled. The
scintillating curls of his hair are characterised in line with his
theory that the physics of the curling of hair is analogous to
vortex motion in water. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo's
Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It
explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts,
and proposes that how works attributed to Leonardo were first
encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain would
shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon. This
volume gives a dramatic first-hand account of the modern-day
discovery of the painting, from its purchase in a minor New Orleans
auction house, to the cleaning of the picture that would disclose
it as Leonardo's startling original, and the research processes
that would uncover illustrious and obscure former owners. The book
presents the definitive study of the new masterpiece.
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