This feature documentary covers the mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi - the supposed first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century. Which has gone missing after being sold to a morbidly rich godzillionaire - who is likely Mohammed bin Salman who had his guys cut Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi into pieces.
The work is for sure considered to be partially by da Vinci and for sure by one of his students. But whether it was 100% originally painted by da Vinci is still a matter of private debate. New York art restorer Dianne Modestini, who is One of the if not THE leading art restores in the world thinks so and so do the experts at the Louvre in Paris. The work stayed undiscovered for hundreds of years because of a bad restoration which covered up many of the traits that were call signs of da Vinci’s work and until that restoration work was removed only were those things then discovered.
The film tells the tail of this process and also how the priceless work of art of course went into the private sale market, and all the skullduggery contained within, to then being the highest selling work of art to date. A later twist on the story is that bin Salman visited Paris prior to the work’s authentication by the Louvre. So if it is not a 100% real da Vinci he could have just offered them a couple million to claim it was in order to increase the value of his very expensive investment.
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