Posted on 10/10/2017 7:33:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Its the passion of the painting.
Leonardo da Vincis haunting last work, depicting Jesus Christ, is coming to New York this month and is expected to fetch an estimated $100 million at a November Christies auction, a spokesperson said.
Salvator Mundi is a painting of the most iconic figure in the world by the most important artist of all time, Loic Gouzer, chairman of post-war and contemporary art for Christies New York, said in a statement released by the auction house.
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Thanks for the ping, otherwise I would have missed this story.
I am utterly unfamiliar with this work. Seems as if I should have known about it after 40 years of studying art history. I agree with those who say that if it was a real Leonardo it would fetch closer to $300 million.
I find the lower face and neck disturbing and vague in form. It seems as if the artist was trying to get the mystery of the shading (fancy word chiaroscuro) around the face as in the Mona Lisa, but here it is a vague brown blur instead.
But the hands and globe and eyes are very nicely painted. It can be a very satisfying painting without having been done by Leonardo da Vinci.
This looks more like him than any other depiction I have ever seen. Not the features, particularly, but the attitude, the mood, the serenity. No melodramatic eyes rolling upward to heaven etc.
It seems unfinished to me also. It doesn’t appear much like his painting of Christ in the last supper, and the crystal ball seems odd.
I’m definitely an amateur though, just love his paintings.
It's been hanging on a wall for 500 years, it just needs a little restorative work:
Thanks Swordmaker.
Isleworth Mona Lisa keyword:
Ginevra de' Benci, the only major work by Leonardo this side of the Pond, is unusual in that it is painted on both sides, and the National Gallery displays it (or at least, used to) so both sides are visible.
reverse, motto is "She adorns her virtue with beauty":
#davincisowhite
A few years ago I attended a lecture by an optics expert who worked on one of the authentication teams. He said the preponderance of evidence showed it to be a work by Leonardo.
I’m still hoping to find a DaVinci at a yard sale, so I think I will pass on this one.
Is it just me...or does Jesus look like Tim Tebow??
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