Since its sale at Christie’s in 2017, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi has been the subject of ongoing debate and questions. In 2021, curators at the Prado announced their doubts over the attribution in their exhibition catalogue for ‘Leonardo and the copy of the Mona Lisa. New Approaches to the artist’s studio practices’. In 2019, the Louvre controversially pulled the painting from their Leonardo da Vinci exhibition.
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According to an announcement made by the owner, the infamous Salvator Mundi painting will no longer feature in the upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. This follows reports that the museum’s Curators were unable to agree whether it was painted by Leonardo or his workshop.
This week, the Louvre Museum in Paris confirmed its request to borrow Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’. Continue reading
It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction for an eye-watering £335 million in 2017. Now new evidence has surfaced, which supports an alternative back story to the much contested ‘Salvator Mundi’, said to be the last work by Leonardo da Vinci. Continue reading
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