Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (The Savior of the World)...

in leonardo •  7 years ago  (edited)

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The painting shows Jesus, in Renaissance dress, giving a benediction with his right hand raised and two fingers extended, while holding a transparent rock crystal orb in his left hand, signaling his role as savior of the world and master of the cosmos, and representing the 'crystalline sphere' of the heavens, as it was perceived during the Renaissance.

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When Leonardo da Vinci's long-lost painting, "Salvator Mundi" ("Savior of the World") shattered records by selling for $ 450.3 million at mid-November, its fate remained as mysterious as its unknown buyer.

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