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The Last Leonardo : The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis (2019, Hardcover)

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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million--and might not be the real thing. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is "the rarest thing on the planet." Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world's most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo's assistants in the early sixteenth century. But where was the original by the master himself? In November 2017, Christie's auction house announced they had it. But did they? The Last Leonardo tells a thrilling tale of a spellbinding icon invested with the power to make or break the reputations of scholars, billionaires, kings, and sheikhs. Ben Lewis takes us to Leonardo's studio in Renaissance Italy; to the court of Charles I and the English Civil War; to Amsterdam, Moscow, and New Orleans; to the galleries, salerooms, and restorer's workshop as the painting slowly, painstakingly emerged from obscurity. The vicissitudes of the highly secretive art market are charted across six centuries. It is a twisting tale of geniuses and oligarchs, double-crossings and disappearances, in which we're never quite certain what to believe. Above all, it is an adventure story about the search for lost treasure, and a quest for the truth. Praise for The Last Leonardo "The story of the world's most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail in Ben Lewis's book. . . . Lewis's probings of the Salvator 's backstory raise questions about its historical status and visibility, and these lead in turn to the fundamental question of whether the painting is really an autograph work by Leonardo." --Charles Nicholl, The Guardian "As the art historian and critic Ben Lewis shows in his forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting, establishing the truth is like nailing down jelly." -- Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1984819259
ISBN-13
9781984819253
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038722730

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Leonardo : the Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Author
Ben Lewis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Modern / 21st Century, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Nd623.L5a78 2019
Reviews
"As the art historian and critic Ben Lewis shows in his forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting, establishing the truth is like nailing down jelly." -- Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-303078
Dewey Decimal
759.5
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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