Many have dubbed the evocative work “the male Mona Lisa” because of its similarities to the iconic painting, according to Francois de Poortere, head of Old Master paintings at Christie’s.
The Renaissance work, which hung in the collection of King Charles I in the 1600s, was long believed to have been destroyed until its rediscovery in 2005.
What a strange article, that presupposes that people are more familiar with the Mona Lisa than with our Lord Jesus Christ.
And in New York, that may just be true.
Most painters are famous for just one work.
In Da Vinci's case that work is Mona Lisa, Rembrandt's would be Night Watch, Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Van Gogh's Starry Night.