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Da Vinci’s ‘male Mona Lisa’ expected to sell for $100M — Salvatori Mundi (video)
The New York Post ^
| October 10, 2017 | 3:19pm
| By Tamar Lapin
Posted on 10/10/2017 7:33:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Enchante
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.
To: Enchante; Republicanprofessor
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.
To: Enchante
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.
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10/11/2017 8:43:38 PM PDT
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Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: Enchante
"... a somewhat vague and incomplete appearance, as though it needed more work.... the eyes especially!"
It's been hanging on a wall for 500 years, it just needs a little restorative work:
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10/11/2017 8:59:03 PM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks Swordmaker.
Isleworth Mona Lisa keyword:
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10/23/2017 6:05:25 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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There aren't many Leonardo paintings in any medium, and he remains notorious for leaving work unfinished (take a look at the hairline on the Louvre "Mona Lisa"; apparently not quite finished, mitigating in favor of authenticity). Here's hoping that some rich **** shells out the money for this, and donates it (or lends it) to the National Gallery.
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":
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10/23/2017 6:27:37 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Enchante
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10/23/2017 6:28:35 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker
If a crappy Basquiat can sell for $110 million, this should sell in the half to one billion dollar range.
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.
To: Swordmaker
I’m still hoping to find a DaVinci at a yard sale, so I think I will pass on this one.
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10/23/2017 8:27:18 AM PDT
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Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Enchante
Is it just me...or does Jesus look like Tim Tebow??
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10/23/2017 8:30:45 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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