ubiór-i-moda: Salvator Mundi (painting)

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Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World') is a painting attributed in whole or part to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated c. 1499–1510. Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included in an exhibition of Leonardo's work at the National Gallery, London, in 2011–2012. Christie's, which sold the work in 2017, stated that most leading scholars consider it an original work by Leonardo, but this attribution has been disputed by some leading specialists who propose that he only contributed certain elements; others believe that the extensive restoration prevents a definitive attribution. The painting…

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After the Original: Hollar and Leonardo’s Salvator. Chapter 12 reviews the Bohemian artist Wencelaus Hollar’s 1650 etching of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi , which, he stated, was made from the original painting. Can we identify Hollar’s model, and on what basis did he attribute it to Leonardo? From a comparison with the closest extant compositions—the Cook, Naples, and Ganay paintings—the chapter examines the consonances and dissonances between the respective paintings and the etching. Since the Ganay painting has been championed (without acceptance) as Leonardo’s original, a history of the scholarly appraisal of this painting, together with some clarifications of its pre-twentieth-century pro…

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The Lost Leonardo is an internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Andreas Koefoed, released in 2021. It follows the discovery and successive sales of the painting the Salvator Mundi, allegedly a work by Leonardo da Vinci, an artist for whom there are only a few attributed works in existence. The film chronicles the dramatic increases in the painting's value from its original purchase in 2005 for $1,175 to its auction in 2017 for $450 million, when it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. The use of high-end artwork for hiding wealth, as well as the conflicts created by large commissions and other economic incentives, are explored in the film. It includes interviews wit…

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The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right is a drawing on paper in Pierre noir pencil and red chalk, attributed to the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci and kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This drawing, whose dimensions have been reduced by the removal of certain existing parts at the time of its creation, is a portrait of a woman's head. It is a preparatory study for the head of the Virgin Mary in the painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in the Musée du Louvre. Probably executed between 1507 and 1513, it belongs to a series of studies largely dating from the beginning of the painting's creation in 1502–1503, each focusing on a particular deta…

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo. Born…

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The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was one of the founding figures of the High Renaissance, and had an enormous influence on subsequent artists. Eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, and the Mona Lisa—are universally attributed to him, and have aroused little or no controversy in the past. Eleven additional works are now widely attributed to his oeuvre, though most have previously incited considerable controversy or doubt: the Annunciation, Madonna of…

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Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts. In Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts the ‘Three Salvateers’—Robert Simon, Martin Kemp and Margaret Dalivalle—give a first-hand account of the discovery of the lost Renaissance masterpiece; from its purchase for $1,175 in a New Orleans auction house in 2005, to the worldwide media spectacle of its sale to a Saudi prince for $450 million in 2017. A behind-the-scenes view of the painstaking processes of identification, consultation, scientific analysis, conservation, and archival research that underpinned the attribution of the painting to Leonardo, the book presents a con…