Leonardo da vinci portrait of the savior. Officially: "Savior of the World" - the most expensive painting on the planet Image of Jesus Christ sold for half a billion dollars
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For decades, the Marquis de Ganet tried to convince the museum community of the primacy of the "Savior" who decorated his mansion in Paris. According to de Ganet, one of the previous owners of the painting, Baron de Laranti, acquired it in the 19th century from a monastery in Nantes, where he bequeathed to transfer the work ...
"Savior of the World" is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that has long been considered lost. Her customer is usually called King Louis XII of France. Several sketches are kept at Windsor Castle. About 20 works of Leonardos on this subject have survived. It is possible that one of them is a badly damaged original by Leonardo, finished by someone from his workshop.
For decades, the Marquis de Ganet tried to convince the museum community of the primacy of the "Savior" who decorated his mansion in Paris. According to de Ganet, one of the former owners of the painting, Baron de Laranti, acquired it in the 19th century from a monastery in Nantes, where the widow of Louis XII bequeathed to transfer the work.
In 1982, the painting took part in an exhibition of the master's works in his hometown of Vinci; this exhibition was curated by Carlo Peretti, an experienced Leonardesque attribution specialist. Despite all efforts, the Marquis failed to prove that the Parisian "Savior" was Leonardo's brush. Most modern catalogs attribute it to Francesco Melzi or Marco d'Ojono. In 1999, the painting was sold at Sotheby's for $ 332,000.
Also known is an engraving of the mid-17th century, made by Vaclav Hollar, probably by order of the English Queen Henrietta Maria. If the engraving was made from an original by Leonardo, then we can conclude that at that time the painting belonged to the Stuarts. Perhaps it was this work that entered the collection of the Duke of Buckingham in 1688. In any case, in 1763 his descendants sold it at auction as the work of Leonardo, after which the trace of the painting was lost.
In late 2011, the National Gallery of London announced that the upcoming exhibition of Leonardo's work, along with his authentic Milanese works brought to London from all over Europe, will also include the Savior of the World from a private collection in New York. In 1900, it was acquired as a work for the Milan school by one of the richest men in Victorian England, Baronet Frederick Cook, owner of the luxurious Montferrat Palace in Sintra. Works by Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Hubert van Eyck, Diego Velazquez and Rembrandt hung in his house.
The "Savior of the World" from the Cook collection was distorted by later notes and corrections: in the era of the Counter-Reformation, the traditional mustache and beard were added to the beardless and strangely feminine face of the Savior. It was so difficult to attribute the painting in this form that in 1958, Cook's heirs were able to sell it at Sotheby's for only 45 pounds.
In 2004, at an unnamed auction, the work was acquired by Robert Simon, an Old Master Specialist, and a group of art dealers. Then the work was sent for restoration, during which it was possible to clear it of the records. Details of the restoration were not disclosed. After that, "The Savior" underwent examination in several museums in Europe and the United States, and only London, after consulting with major experts, agreed to recognize the authorship of Leonardo. Attention is drawn to the high craftsmanship of the glass orb and, as it were, the luminous hand of Christ, the airy lightness of blue robes, the use of sfumato, the similarity of the drawing with the sketches from Windsor Castle and the complete correspondence of the pigments of the New York "Savior" and London "Madonna of the Rocks".
Although Carlo Peretti disputes the attribution of this painting to Leonardo, according to preliminary estimates, the market value of New York's "Savior" could already reach $ 200 million.
17.11.2017, 17:10
Leonardo da Vinci's painting sold for $ 450 million
A unique painting "The Savior of the World" by Da Vinci was sold at an auction for $ 450 million. Unfortunately, the name of the new owner did not give his name. Now for everyone the intrigue - who is the new owner of Da Vinci's "Savior of the World"?
On the evening of November 15, there was a sensation in artistic circles: the painting "Savior of the World" or "Salvator Mundi", attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, was sold at auction for 400 million dollars plus a fee of 50 million dollars. "Savior of the World" has become the most expensive painting on the planet.
"Savior of the World" by Leonardo Da Vinci
At the Christie’s auction in New York on November 15, an unknown buyer paid an unimaginable sum for him - $ 450.3 million. This was the logical conclusion of an 11-year epic with the rediscovery, research, restoration and resale of the painting.
In the painting, Jesus with chestnut locks is staring at the viewer. In his left hand rests a crystal sphere, and his right is raised in a blessing gesture. According to Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford, "The Savior literally holds the welfare of the world and its inhabitants in the palm of his hand."
Leonardo unambiguously presented the Redeemer not as a deity, but as a man - which is extremely unusual for that time - without a crown or halo.
Journalists tried in every possible way to find out who the mysterious buyer was, but they could not achieve anything.
"We do not comment on the personalities of the buyers, sorry," snapped Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti. "Bids came from all over the world."
The auction house's refusal to disclose incognito - even gender and region of residence - of the mysterious tycoon has puzzled art historians, dealers and collectors. There are not so many billionaires in the world who are able to buy a painting for $ 400 million and pay another 50 million in fees.
It is assumed that this is either a millionaire from the United States who decided to donate a Da Vinci painting to the museum in his homeland, since there is only one Da Vinci painting in the whole country - "Portrait of Ginevra de Benchi".
Portrait of Ginevra de Benci - another painting by da Vinci
Or it could be a billionaire collector from the East or China, who will stop at nothing to get such a rarity.
It is precisely known that the "Savior of the World" belonged to King Charles I of England (1600-1649). The record of the painting is contained in the register of the royal collection, compiled a year after the execution of the monarch.
Between 1763 and 1900, nothing is known about the panel. During this time, a thicker beard was added to Christ, and his face and hair were so repainted that the image changed almost beyond recognition.
In 1958, the Savior of the World was auctioned off for only £ 45 ($ 60 in 2017 prices). Then the panel disappeared again for almost half a century and appeared only in 2005 at a regional American auction without any attribution.
During the restoration, it was discovered that the work belongs to the hand of Leonardo Da Vinci. During the restoration process, Dr. Modestini suspected that she was working with a work by Leonardo da Vinci.
“I went home and thought I was crazy. My hands were shaking,” the scientist recalled.
The art of making the hair and folds of Christ's garment is said to be proof of authorship; da Vinci's signature sfumato technique - shading paint with the palm of his hand; paint composition; detailed drawing of hands. Skeptics draw attention to the fact that the author was unable to correctly convey the distortion of the picture, which would have created a glass ball. No documentary evidence of Leonardo's work on "The Savior of the World" has survived.
In 2011, "The Savior of the World" was shown to the public for the first time at the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci. The Artist at the Court of Milan" at the National Gallery in London. However, in 2013, the "Savior of the World" was again on the auction podium. Then it was bought for 80 million dollars by the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier and a few days later resold to the Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev for 127.5 million.
A few years later, the billionaire suspected the art dealer of fraudulent transactions with works of art and filed a lawsuit. Salvator Mundi has become one of the stumbling blocks in legal battles. Bouvier dismisses all accusations.
Rybolovlev decided to sell the painting, and this time Una went for a record amount of $ 450 million.
The painting by Leonardo da Vinci, which was lost many centuries ago, was identified jointly by experts from the United States and Europe. The masterpiece will be on display at London's National Gallery, as part of the Leonardo exhibition, which will open on November 9, reports ARTnews.com.
The painting "Savior of the World" (Salvator Mundi) depicts Christ with his right hand raised in a blessing gesture and his left hand holding the globe. It is painted in oil on a 66x47cm wood panel.
“This is one of the greatest discoveries in the art world in the last hundred years,” notes one of the scholars.
The work was owned by a consortium of businessmen, which included Robert Simon, a New York-based Old Master. According to some reports, it was bought at a real estate sale in the United States six to seven years ago. Simon declined to comment on the situation with the painting, the price and the location of the auction. “I was asked not to discuss this,” he says.
Two years ago, Simon donated the panel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for curators and restorers to study. “When the panel was brought to the restoration studio, it turned out that this is a painting that has long been forgotten. The painting was covered with an additional layer of paint and, in general, very much looked like a copy. The tree cracked and darkened over time. However, when the restorer applied artificial resin to it, the material turned gray and allowed almost no harm to remove the outer layer of paint, under which there was a very delicate work. Everyone agreed that the painting belonged to Leonardo's brush, ”says an anonymous source close to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The work was shown last year to curators at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Then, 18 months ago, she was brought to the National Gallery in London. Nicholas Penny, museum director and Luke Syson, curator of the upcoming exhibition, have invited four Leonardo specialists to the museum's restoration studio. The purpose of the invitation was not stated, Penny just promised to show them something interesting.
The invitees included Carmen Bambach (curator of the department of graphics and painting at the Metropolitan Museum), Pietro Marani (head of the restoration of Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan), Maria Teresa Fiorio (author of many books about the Renaissance, including a biography of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, who considered the best student of Leonardo) and Martin Kemp (professor emeritus of art history at the University of Oxford, who spent more than forty years studying da Vinci). Simon was also present at the meeting.
According to the stenographer present, “The painting was damaged and repainted. This is not a rare practice among the old masters: they have to be intensively restored. The paint has been lost, which is not surprising. The condition cannot be called impeccable, but that was enough to convey a wonderful impression. "
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci before and after restoration: 
The first documented owner of the painting was King Charles I of England. Then she passed to Charles II. Then it became problematic to trace the path of the painting, so there is a gap from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
In the 19th century, the painting was acquired by a British collector, Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901). According to Burlington Magazine, he had "extraordinary paintings" including works by Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, van Eyck, Velazquez and Rembrandt. In the late forties of last year, the painting was exhibited in England along with other works from the Cook collection. Then it was listed as "School of Milan (c. 1500)". In 1958, she was sold by the guardians of Cook's collection at Sotheby's in London for 45 pounds (today it is about 2,000 rubles). The catalog indicated that it was the work of Boltraffio.
The Savior of the World theme was popularized by Dutch artists Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Durer. In Italy, she began to actively develop during the Renaissance.
Among other works by Leonardo to be exhibited at the National Gallery, it is worth mentioning "The Girl with the Ermine" from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland. According to unofficial information from the Western press, the National Gallery paid 800 thousand dollars to borrow the painting for the duration of the exhibition. When the "Girl with an Ermine" was discovered many years ago, she was received ambiguously. It took time to be properly received.
The exhibition at the National Gallery runs until February 5, 2012. It will be dedicated to the years that Leonardo spent at the court of Ludovico Sforza, the ruler of Milan. Last May, Season told a reporter for the Guardian that getting a loan of one of the genius's paintings would be an achievement, but seven would be a miracle. Some of the exhibits will leave the museums of Italy and France for the first time to be exhibited in London.
One of the researchers notes that the consortium has reduced the price for it to $ 100 million. “I was told that they used to ask for $ 200 million for a painting,” he says. However, Simon noted that, as a representative of the owners, he officially claims that the painting is not for sale.
The news about the planned appearance of the "Savior of the World" at the exhibition did not pass without criticism. One of the curators said: "Many were very surprised when they heard that the gallery will include in the exhibition a work that is for sale for such a huge amount." However, if we take into account Simon's assurances that it is not for sale, then there can be no place for surprise.
Today the record of the auction was broken, for the painting by Leonardo da Vinci "Savior of the World" the unknown paid almost half a billion dollars. The drawing is a blatant "bullshit". And against this background, the question naturally arises: why did they give so much real money for this masterpiece, moreover, possibly also fake?
The main thing is that the picture is fake ... And this follows from the historical context of its "writing".
For the reasons for buying a painting for such a high price and what exactly this painting means, see the video:
First, a little working information - for those who like to count other people's money. According to The New York Times, the painting was sold by the trust fund of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who acquired it in 2013 for $ 127.5 million.
And now the painting by Leonardo da Vinci "Salvator Mundi" was bought at Christie's in New York for $ 450.3 million. The name of the new owner of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece has not been disclosed.
So this is what is shown in the picture? "Salvator Mundi" does not mean "Savior of the world" at all. This is, let's say, a tactless free translation.
The correct translation is as follows. "Salvator" translates as "vase, vessel, salad bowl, bowl", etc. This is the designation of the vessel in which the World is placed. "Salvator" is the image of the religious ark. The single root word "Salvator" is "shalanda", "salt shaker", "salon", "hall", etc.
The word "Mundi" also does not mean Peace at all (you see for yourself, the root is not the same). Here are a few words of the same root: Hebrew ~ manol - "castle"; Quenya mundo - "bull" (rather, two-horned); Est. muna, muhk - "bump"; catalan. munt, isp. montón - "heap";
lat. mundus - "clean".
The meaning of the word "Mundi" is that it means the mythological mountain Mir (in the Indian tradition - Meru). It is the mountain called "World", and not the world itself as such. Outside of this mountain there is still a huge amount of lands and territories, which are also included in the generalizing concept of "peace".
The full translation of the phrase "Salvator Mundi" means "Ark by the Mountain". This is the most traditional image of all the mythologies of the world, as well as religions. The most ancient image of such an ark near such a mountain is the constellation of the Southern sky of Korm. She is the remnant of the very ark on which the ancient, still pre-biblical, messiah crossed from the Northern Heaven to the Southern Heaven.
Christianity as a religion is built on pagan myths and Russian fairy tales. This significant event - the invention of Christianity - took place in the 19th century. The authors are Masons. The first Bible came out at the very end of the 19th century. Its second edition is at the end of the 20th century.
The basis of the plot about Jesus Christ is set forth in the Russian fairy tale "At the Command of the Pike." In it, the king seals the mother and child in a barrel (ark) and throws it into the sea. This ark, with a woman and a man on board, moors to the magical island of Buyan. The same plot was repeated in his fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin "The Tale of Tsar Saltan".
The name Saltan is used in the word "Salvator".
As I said in my video, Jesus Christ is exactly the ark that contains both the female part and the male part at the same time. Therefore, in the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the upper, male part of the picture is the face of a man, and the lower, female part is the woman's chest and body.
Leonardo portrayed Jesus Christ as a single ark bearing female and male sexual characteristics. This belief, by the way, is the origin of the European disease of society, where gays and lesbians breed with a lesion of the brain of believers. This is a mental religious illness.
And one more detail. The name "Jesus Christ" is translated as "Woman Man", or in the Russian tradition - "Yaga Veles", in the English - the name "GenRikh", in the total tradition "America Russia", in the geographical one - "Antarctica Arctic", etc. All translations are equivalent: bottom - female, top - male.
In the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ is holding a spherical model of the Earth. It is made in the form of a glass ball. Why glass? This is done in order to show that the depicted earth model is spherical, and it has not only a circle in the front plane, but also a spherical depth.
What do experts say about this? They say this masterpiece is from the royal collection. There are a lot of details here. Which, however, anyone can compose. Here are the sentimental details:
« As noted by the expert on the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Luc Seison, the painting may have been written for the French royal house and came to England after Charles I married the French princess Henrietta Maria in 1625. At the same time, the master Vaclav Hollar, apparently by order of the Queen, made an engraving from the canvas.
The painting was listed in the register of the royal collection, compiled a year after the execution of Charles I in 1649, then was sold at auction in 1651 and by 1666 returned to the royal collection under Charles II. According to some reports, she was in the personal office of the king. After 1763, traces of the painting are lost, until it was acquired in 1900 in a badly damaged state for a private collection.
In 2007, the painting was restored at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The following year, a group of internationally recognized experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci studied the canvas at the National Gallery in London and compared the painting style with another famous work of the master, Madonna of the Rocks.
According to one group of experts, "Savior of the World" refers to the end of the Milanese period of Leonardo da Vinci's work in the 1490s, when the master wrote the famous "Last Supper". Another group of experts believes that the painting was painted somewhat later, in the 1500s, during the Florentine period of Leonardo da Vinci's work.", Http://tass.ru/kultura/4733122.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 and died in 1519. The first work on the heliocentric system was published by Nicolaus Copernicus only in 1543, he published his work on the heliocentric system - "On the rotation of the celestial spheres." After that, it took several more decades and centuries before the Earth, in the minds of scientists, took a spherical shape.
Even Nicolaus Copernicus himself is depicted in the same perspective as the character in an expensive painting. But Copernicus holds in his left hand a flat model of the World, and Jesus Christ holds a spherical one. Turning the passage of time inside out.
As for the universe in general, even today it is a flat circle, and not at all a sphere.
Thus, Leonardo da Vinci could not depict what no one knew anything about in his time. It is, of course, tempting to be deceived by genius and providence. But fact is fact. The Spherical Earth became traditional only in the 18th - 19th centuries.
The date of the painting "Salvator Mundi", that is, "The Ark by the Mountain", is a canvas of the 17th-19th centuries. And, of course, a fake.
Andrey Tyunyaev, editor-in-chief of the President newspaper