This fascinating documentary has been hiding in my files for seven years. I think it may well be the very first one that discusses Leonardo's "lost" painting (including its 'restoration') in detail and given its November 2017 Christie's auction I think it immediately deserves more publicity. The copy is NOT perfect but it is perfectly clear. It is what it is in that it contains many wonderful (new) insights into this amazing painting. ENJOY!
Just crazy how a person 500 years ago did paintings the whole world is still thinking about
H H The Egyptians built pyramids 4.000 years ago and we are still amazed by them.
He had talent.
If it’s real.
Or did he - I'm thinking this is one of the biggest scams in history 😱
@@juniorjohnson5961 you have no idea.
Am I the only one who sees the same face in all of the Leonardo paintings? Must be either obsessed with that face or there's some kind of message he's trying to send
his lover
Some claim he painted his pupil and alleged lover Salai in many of his works.
His face as a young man
Lol imagine it was the only face he could paint, like, he wanted to paint different faces but they all ended up looking the same
I'm no expert but id say he put soo much focus into certain techniques that there would always be similarities
Da Vinci still owning the world 500 years later ....
Only money wise.
No hes not he was a deceiver a tool
that's not by davinci. simply posing forward like that isnt like davincis work.
101% Agreed
I agree!
Dianne, The restorers voice is so passionately sooooothing.❤️
I'm Shure they paid her very well to be convincing and soothing 🖼️
Really? She is American…
@@Spike-yc5gx too much varnish
@@juniorjohnson5961 All the "players" in this game should have the amount of money they made on it printed on the screen when they show up. She got a piece of the pie.
500 years later, this is still Leonardo DaVinci’s world and we’re just living in it. What a talent! ❤
Truly captivating..when you can FEEL the piece in the room with you that's beyond art..
I saw this painting on preview in San Francisco prior to the sale. It made me cry. They had removed the plexiglass because the glare was interfering with the view.
What made me cry was the awful restoration .
Thank you for posting. Fantastic!
the conservator really fell in love with the painting - deeply. the face is hard to describe with words - ethereal, beautiful, spiritual. i find the Mona Lisa rather boring (saw it in person), but this, i could look into the face for hours. DaVinci was a genius upon a genius. i love his drawing of the dragon. thank you so much for posting this. ~~~~~~
"inner angelic light" in his paintings. yiu can feel it. - he was gay- so what!! and i do Not find the two paintings "sexless" at all. similar face construction, yes. this is your opinion and, i guess, others as well. buti don't think you have to be an expert to feel and live in a painting or drawing like DaVinci's. . . those angels are beatific. the man at 19:46 feels it beautifully - love what says and how he says it- he should be the narrator. "Leonardo realized that paintings could make you fall in love, and in order to do that you need to be amazed by a kind of absolutely essential beauty. a beauty which was beyond you know what you yourself happen fancy."
Well the mona lisa, (one of the most exciting and ground breaking paintings ever, you obviously dont get it!) is most certainly from the hand on de vinci and this hoax all most certainly isn't.
The face looks like someone with plastic surgery. Its just off.
Beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.
Love this documentary piece, great job!!
started work on the painting without taking any proper colour photographs? really? What a heist
I was thinking same! Two guys buy the painting for $10,000 pay someone to work on it for six years sell it for 120 million the guy realized he's been scammed sells it quickly for 160million goes to auction sells for $450 million this guy realized he's been duped painting vanished , Biggest Art scam ever 😱
When I see this painting I fall a sleep then I see it in my dream...I don't know why!!!!?
Even if is not Leonardo Da Vinci the painter, the painting is so beatiful
‘Its beautiful, just look at the hand” amorphous crosseyed no neck cheesus :D
The eye (viewers left) is too small and the space between the eyes too large.You're right about the SpongeBob neck.
stunning painting. when you turn away, you want to see it again, or feel youve just missed out on something
featherinthewind333 : So you do!!
Fakes can do that to a person. Yes.
Placebo effect😉
The pentimento argument (the thumb was changed indicating that the artist changed his mind, therefore this was an original, not a copy) is fallacious. Any faker knows to include these pentimenti. Eric Heborn - famous artfaker - used to include them. So called "art experts" seem to be universally dense, but then it's all about money so they have a vested interest in finding fakes to be genuine. It's estimated that as much of 50% of the expensive art out there is fake.
absolutely agreed. they act as if someone who is copying a painting will never make a compositional mistake and have to correct it. as if Leonardo was the only person in history to adjust his drawings and change something in the composition.
The pentimento was done during Leo's lifetime.
*'The Fraud of the Century'* The $alvador Modestini via Martin Kemp and cohorts have Absolutely No Evidence to prove any originality of the artwork. Furthermore absolutely no scrutiny permitted to conclusively prove irrefutable forensics towards the controversial attribution. The conveniently found *$1200* battered plank engineered towards catering for the Arab Money acquiring a Controversial Christ. Even Judas must be Gigging ! Absolutely Disgusting Artworld Elitest Attribution Authentication.
Further to 1911 supposedly the Paris pile of Hearsay was found. Interesting to know why there is never any scrutiny or independent XRF spectography etc of the so called Gioconda. Besides Peter Silvermans Isabelle D' Este is somewhat another thorn in Martin Kemps vested interests. *God Bless Christie$*
@@daniyalg2436 Totally agree , that's why the Russian who bought it for 120 million sold it immediately for 160 million , goes to auction sells for 450 million he realized he been scammed painting disappeared .
Suddenly a lot of people in the comments are experts on art and restoration 💀
The way he dropped the "Almost certainly gay" had me rolling.
UNLESS Da Vinci messed up his painting technique and time has messed it up and made it look UN-Da Vinci-like, I believe Da Vinci did NOT paint it.
Just beautiful!!
Very few brush strokes on that painting, if any, are actually from Leonardo.
I have no idea if this painting is truly by Leonardo DaVinci or not. I do know it is a beautiful piece of work. It moves me and makes me a bit emotional. Christ really seems to look at you, and only you, whilst giving you his blessing.
And today, we now know that The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Louvre in Paris, and The Museo Nacional del Prado (and all their respective curatorial teams) have unanimously declared this painting to definitely *NOT* be by the hand of Leonardo, and what is more, they have all unequivocally gone on the record and stated that they will *NOT* exhibit this painting with any attribution to Leonardo.
Correction at 11.40 Mona Lisa is painted on Lombardy poplar, not walnut.
Why is it relevant that Leonardo was "almost certainly gay"? Frankly, I don't give a flip what his sexual preference was. He was a great artist. End of story.
None. Zero! But it was part of the footage and impossible to delete.
Paul Baldwin Because it meant this could be a portrayal of Leonardo’s lover, his life mate.
It's an easy assumption that this announcer is gay. Leftists historical revisionists need to see Leonardo as a homosexual, but if you read books by any of Leonardo's primary biographers you won't come away thinking he was the least bit sexual at all.
They say that because he wrote the "da vinci" code 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because people are associating this demonic painting with that of the Savior Jesus Christ.
Retouching of one of the most legendary painting made by genius artist is one of the biggest crime in history of art in my opinion.. i can accept on how damaged is it as long as i know it was the original form.. how sad....
its true form still remains. obviously its sad because we lose a certain amount of authentication but without a touch up its true form will eventually disappear and his art will be lost forever. So I believe its the right decision.
@@noahwharton4756 the true form may dissapear but the aunthencity matters to me most... its like the sand... no matter what color ,texture and form it has you cant change the fact that it is a sand...
@@anonymousguitarist9096 I understand but why would we let such a priceless artifact be destroyed by time?
@@noahwharton4756 i dont care if time destroyed it... because all things must come to past... i always let the nature destroyed everything because it is what nature really does.. i always choose the authencity in everything.. i have my own opinion but also i admire your point.. the ony thing is everyone has their opinion..
@@noahwharton4756 i dont care if time destroyed it... because all things must come to past... i always let the nature destroyed everything because it is what nature really does.. i always choose the authencity in everything.. i have my own opinion but also i admire your point.. the only thing is everyone has their opinion.. imagine a song being revived.. you can clearly hear the difference of it even if the artist who revived it perfectly or more beautifully done it compared to the original artist.. this is not a house being restored or renovated this is a painting... the hands leonardo are totally different from the one who repaint this masterpiece...
"The less beautiful". Ah, come on, leave it out.
Lmao! dont be a weenie.
Right, that was pretty foul.
Stunning painting
Immortality is only as good as the memory, and Leonardo and the ancient Egyptians know that,, they are brilliant!
And dead.
i love Leonardo he knew everything. he was unique.
from many of these comments it's obvious that some just don't get it, no matter how carefully it might be explained to them. Salvator Mundi lives on !
Dont get what? Its a bad restoration. She turned the face into a puffy fuzzy mess...dull eyes and chipmunk cheeks not apparent in the unrestored panel.
45$....WHAT MATE??? Cant believe a painting from Leonardos students was this cheap, even in bad condition
It was after the war, and the art market was flooded. People needed cash.
Why don't they show the photo documentation prior to repainting, I mean "conservation/restoration" (sorry).
they do, it looked bad but they removed painting and varnish since
It wasn’t a repaint. They removed the work of previous restorations that basically ruined the painting and found this beautiful piece under all the crap
jay fine No, they removed paint from previous restorations. That is not tampering with the original painting.
Leah Dragon the painting was damaged even split
All conservations require photo documentation prior to initial intervention. Every conservator knows this. It’s SOP. So in order to “prove” it is what they say it is. All steps must be taken. If one or more of these steps are omitted then the piece itself comes into doubt. As it stands now it’s authenticity is questionable even doubtful . Huge amounts of $ are involved. Scams are a dime a dozen. Usually an old painting is transformed into something it’s not then a huge well funded propaganda campaign insues spiking hype/ interest then an auction some go as far as involving the auctioneer, ex: chandelier bids guaranteeing optimum dollar.
“...and almost certainly GAY.” Well, THAT came completely out of left field...
Michelangelo was gay too but Raphael was straight as an arrow.
Its not known if he was gay...a lot of the ideology that he was gay came from the fact that he used a lady model for which he used to create a painting that can't so easily be seen as a male or female...it could be that he was drawing a transgender person or possibly painting someone he may have thought to be "perfect"
Not True! There is no conclusive evidence whatsoever either way as to his sexual orientation. It makes little difference as to the prowess of his monumental genius. Having been falsely accused and completely acquitted of "sodomy" twice in Florence along with his friends, was however very traumatic and fueled his distrust of all things ecclesiastical. If Leonardo was in fact actually 'Gay', then it is to his credit as a Humanitarian and his amazing creative Philanthropy. But what is particularly sickening and infantile is the attribution of 'pedophilia' that some historians have implied by his affections towards Giacomo Caprotti, aka: Sali whom he adopted and loved as a Son!
Er...no...its called PANDERING and its obnoxious... Frankly...most care less...does he dance on Sunday...not drink...wear funny hats ? Could CARE LESS...people are here for the art...
I’m not sure what gay has to do with his genius
15:28 a crystal orb refracts light differently than the painting, just google images of crystal orb and you will see. Leonardo studied optics relentlessly, so was this done on purpose or was it made by a Leonardo pupil or copier?
agree, he was an engineer ,the optics would have been second nature to him ..this orb looks flat and barely 2 dimensional...the eyes look cloudy and damaged {another example of orb theory}...I like the softness of the coloring but the dark muddy background bothers the mind
@@whatadollslife the dark background was common in paintings (mostly portraits) back around that time period
IT'S NOT AN ORB, IT'S A 'BUBBLE', IT'S A WARNING, TIC TOC
PAY ATTENTION NOW: (From An Insider) The '$alvador Modestini' pardon me (Mundi) was a discovery by Alex Parrish who bought the dilapidated wreck for around $1200. Apparently he went halves with the art dealer Robert Simon at $600 each. It was already heavily overpainted beyond recognition from origin thus absolutely no possible way to validate the hand of Da Vinci. - The Modestini Makeover restoration ensued. She jazzed it up over 2 painstaking years whilst at the same time it's profile was glorified by Martin Kemp who happens to be the convenient Da Vinci artworld armchair academic expert. What I find absolutely hilarious is The Arabs would actually buy a 'Controversial Christ.' Even Judas must be giggling.!! In my own opinion having watched the geopolitics intertwined with status and order.. The Saudis bought it to SLAP DOWN their little irritating nemesis 'Qatar' whom are currently as Sovereign World Art Champions with Billions invested in Arts and Highest Profile World Record Prices paid for paintings. Kemp is only privvy to the Royal Collection. He is a laughing stock in the Old Masters artworks as he's never seen the Da Vinci artworks from private collections. These artworks are well away from the corrupt cartel institutions and art dealers. Incidentally, Martin Kemp & Cohorts Luke Syson proceeded to glorify the Salvador Mundi via the UK National Gallery whilst other renowned experts with integrity didn't want their name bestowed with Artworld Corruption. Martin Kemp had instigated and planted the seed to suggest there is a possibility of the hand of Da Vinci. ie dissemination of Rumour and Hearsay (without providing EVIDENCE to support the sudden theory) The build up to legitimise the sudden found battered painting is absolutely disgusting. It's like The Vatican suddenly validating a new found 'Dead Sea Scrolls' or 'Shroud of Turin' The Salvador Mundi is like a replica iphone deemed to be an Apple but 'Made In China' with a Silicon Valley Intel Processor hailed as a thoroughbred authentic Apple product: Experts like Carmen Bambach were falsely implicated over her alleged acceptance in attribution. Even Martin Kemps fellow Oxford Academic colleague Mathew Landrus reacted to telling it the way it is as The Salvador Mundi is a 'Luini' painting all day long. For the record 'The Mundi' was previously attributed to Boltraffio (Da Vinci studio artist). Too many hearsay artworks validated via gatekeepers of the Cartel Institutions with Billions of Dollars at stake. It's called The Art Game - where the Big Boys park their money safely. Months before the 2017 Christies auction - certain Louvre insiders and a few in the know became worried as insiders already knew it was an inside job to clear the air with Dmitry Rybolovlev (former owner of The Mundi whom was had bought it from his art dealer Yves Bouvier) Interesting to see the chain of events from when the original buyers Paerish and Simon who had only paid $1200 then sold it to Bouvier for around $80m. Yves Bouvier then immediately flipped it to Dmitry for around $127m the very same month. Incidentally Dmitry whom is currently financially sanctioned hasn't received payment from Christies per the auction. Furthermore, the Arabs have held back payment due to the Painting Authentication Saga whilst in parallel - Dmitry is still battling in the courts for the €700M fleeced from him by his long time dealer Yves Bouvier). Patrick Drahi (New Sothebys owner) must be absolutely loving it as 'Christies' are now running around like Headless Chickens wishing for more attribution weight to balance the furore. Why do I know this Insider Info ?? I have active first hand experience in overseeing hedge fund and contracts for high level asset acquisitions. I was formerly at a firm where my teams job was to facilitate the processes of asset management exceeding values above $250m. During the last decade - The Art Market needed a boost as it was the safest hedge against other markets. We were part of the underwriting per the overly inflated insurance premiums assigned to major high end artworks and real estate. The artworks appraisals had already been blatantly exaggerated from the outset and the valuations were manipulated with everyone in the chain having a piece of the pie. Prior to the Salvador Mundi Modestini makeover with absolutely ZERO evidence or underlay of the original artwork from origin - the alarming thing is we are somehow expected to believe that Leanardo Da Vinci woke up one morning and thought - well today let's do an out of characteristic Front Faced Christ holding a crystal ball. Pardon My Thumb Folks WTF.😅😅😅😅😅 AGAIN.... Such major inconsistencies and the deriving towards validation of an artwork from the very hand of the Old Master is highly questionable. Surprise Surprise ' the Mona Lisa base sketch is totally different from the surface. In 2000 - analysis and findings ascertained major discrepancies in the base sketch of the Mona Lisa: Alarmingly a totally different base sketch was unravelled - Absolutely Gamechanging - hence for the first time this century - it's a whole new perspective in analysis and finding what's beneath the surface. Louvre Mona Lisa As the science evolves with the latest technologies to provide irrefutable evidence of clarifying the genetic profile of an artwork from origin -... Martin Kemp and cohorts react by saying... 'The Artist Changed His Mind' !!!! So Today's Lesson.. In my own humble opinion !! It's a Monetisation Money Maker game. 'The Da Vinci Game' The Louvre, National Gallery, MOMA and fellow Institutions will always need to accommodate and welcome much needed tourism. The institutions are required to generate merchandise sales to accommodate and welcome the Social Media Selfies and Insta insecure Ducklips: After all - The Vatican doesn't yet open up the Secret Chambers. Until then. My Advice.. WAKE UP and Smell The Starbucks.
This is why all artists should block the sales or resales of their works to AH and art dealers because its basically just a license to print money from (likely) fraudulent works. Wasn't there some person who was imitating Van Gogh (like not using or referencing Van Gogh but copying his paintings exactly) and art dealers were selling them for like over 20k
Amazing ❤
Thanks for sharing the music
Wow in 1900 this painting was sold for 45 £ and now 20th century the same painting rock the 450 millions dollars afther restoration. Crazy Crazy Leonardo.
They are all happy to the outcome of the Auction, they got both 10% comission
Christie's charges BOTH a seller and a buyer a premium... FYI
This reporter, the way he so clumsily moves his hands with his back to the work, and in such negligent proximity, made me very nervous; Especially after almost ripping the top off of Leonardo's Baptismal Font.
Agreed. And you can't just flick around holy water like that either! Then, the quality of his voice ... everything about him irritated me.
Yes.. I noticed the same.Breathing in the face of the masterpiece and dipping his fingers into water as if it is the restroom of a public toilet. Weird.
So..the original figure had 6 fingers and bright red hair???...🤔 this stirs a memory but I can't place it...Fascinating watch, Thank you.
Hmm.. As an Artist..Obsessed with Italian Renaissance... I gotta say.. Im not convinced its a Leonardo. Just my Visceral reaction. But there is No Doubt..Its Beautiful x
We lost some great man in the time...
The changes in the same painting it's like the idea of a moving picture it's just beautiful to look at we must make sure that we don't disregard the arts music artist expression in our young people I really do believe that it's something missing in the American melienuials I noticed that they are missing out on realistic normalized thinking and young adults aren't as mature as older generations not enough real world based upon its contents and much of the unrealistic expectations world of social media I wish I could have been able to see this painting maybe someday I can see more of the arts music science and technology history ect bright future ahead and God and goddess blessed be the wise ones
U came all the way from Sweden? Wow that's like a few hours on a plane that's incredible
Watching this now in 2019 it is farcical as it is is now considered the school of Leonardo. Robert Simon was the dealer bear in mind - his view is hardly objective. He made a fortune from the sale. The leading Leonardo expert didn't verify it; it had already been sold at Christies years earlier as school of...; it was bought for the Louvre in Abu Dhabi and it's launch date postponed twice due to the uncertainty. It would have put Abu Dhabi on the Art map. It sits in a box in Switzerland as its so fragile! www.SvenDaliPress.com if you want to make up your own mind what art is...
It's amazing what fantasies people can entertain about a work of art lacking the proper provenance. They want to believe. I highly suspect that Leonardo was a fictitious character invented hundreds of years after his alleged existence. This is not a universally accepted painting of his, and even the universally accepted paintings lack proper provenance, without even a single traceable primary source for his existence. I should get into the art forgery business, people eat this crap up. Probably some sort of money laundering scheme because 450 million is absurd.
@@GarageSpaceship it is an unimaginable amount of money, but ultimately everything is only ever worth what people are prepared to pay. I didn't realise there was controversy over its authenticity, I'll read about that!
GK It has been discussed in the art world that portions of this painting were done by daVinci ( hands, locks of hair, cloak details, the glass orb) but the face was not of daVinci’s creation. DaVinci never painted a portrait head on ( go online and look at his authenticated portraits) and the very delicate skin texture daVinci is famous for (“sfumato”) because he was the first to add oil to pigments, thus creating oil paints, is severely lacking. Many art historians believe this to be a collaborative painting and not one solely done by daVinci.
They won’t show it in Abu Dhabi because they know they’ve been conned
The leading Da Vinci expert is Martin Kemp. He verified that it is the real thing. There is a 40 minute lecture by him on the subject, going into detail why it is legit.
Stunningly beautiful and perhaps hinting at something else with Christs resemblance to Mary Magdalene - androgyny in this painting...A sort of merging perhaps, hinting at offspring? Who knows?! To me the meaning of the merging is hinting at the marriage of Christ and Mary Magdalene, of which much has been written. The mystery is wonderful and the questions will continue. Will there ever be prints available? I would love to hang a print in my room
Kat Zolita Mason Satanic androgyny from a less than Christian artist.
Jerry Shunk :oooh No don’t think Satanic androgyny at all - I think it has a beautiful and glorious sacredness about it that is also of God. I just think it may be hinting at that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, that’s all. ♥️
Kat Zolita Mason Is the likeliness not more likely that we didn’t know what these people looked it. For want of a bester phrase, it’s guesswork based on stories and other artists impressions?
How do you or anybody in the last 1900 years know what Jesus or Mary Magdalene really looked like? All the paintings and drawings over the years are guesswork at best.
I had similar thoughts. The blue "gown." The androgynous face. The soft, pretty hair. Then again, LDV was likely gay, and I wonder how many of his paintings project his love onto his ideal man. ;)
Right. This doc is literally on salvator mundi. There is a piece of music called salvator mundi - tallis. And for the backing music. They use Miserere Mei. What is the logic
IL NOSTRO ORGOGLIO ITALIANO UNICO GENIO IRRIPETIBILE .ARTISTA COLUI CHE A' INVENTATO IL MONDO
Io non sarei orgoglioso di questo siccome non è di Leonardo. Lui era un perfezionista e questa opera d’arte non ha il perfezionismo di Leonardo. However badly we want it to be his, should be quite obvious that it is not…
I always loved his work. I am left handed. They look like the same person. Mona Lisa looks like Salvador Mundi .
Salai... His man servant and alleged lover.
Does anyone else think that this painting was much better before it was restored?
No.
Yep, the ones regretting that sale are my cousins ....in Baton Rouge, Louisiana!!! My Aunt Ruth and Uncle Clovis acquired this painting on a trip to Europe in about 1958..... they have passed away, and my cousins had an estate sale. I think they got about $2,000. For it... They had no idea what they had. The men that bought it, I'm quite sure, new exactly what they had.....
Wow! Well at least it's in the hand of professionals to be well taken care of. Your family had a lucky find! :)
@@samantharose5255 your right, it is in the hands of people who will, hopefully , take good care of it. I only wish my cousins could have garnered a sort of finders fee , so to speak, in order to help pay off debts after the estate was cleared. Sometimes I think that the auction houses are a bit corrupt, in regards to how they handle things.... there is one, possibly two lawsuits going on over this painting that involve the folks that bought it from my uncle's estate and the auction house. Anyway, it belongs in a museum for all to enjoy. Not everyone can afford to travel around the world. If these auction houses make millions, they should allow the exhibits to tour around the world.
@@row1landr Agreed! :)
I saw in a video that the art dealer from New York who bought it paid $1875, I believe. He knew, it was his job to find paintings that could be valuable.
Wasn't another oil painting painted over thus how did they find the original
There's no way in Hell this is a real LDV !
Agreed !
Why?
The face, after restoration, does not look like it was painted by Leonardo; the hands, cloak, and even hair, however, do. Also, his eyes look to have the affliction of strabismus after being "restored." Before restoration, the eyes were aligned and maybe then it could be said that it might have been painted by da Vinci. But as presented now, the face is so "un- da Vinci-esque." Compare it to his other portraits and this painting is flat; one-dimensional. But, if you keep listening long enough to what those who believe it is a da Vinci say you too will finally surrender and believe it. I don't.
Holly Golightly wow look at this art expert
Hats off to The Fraud of The Century !! Anyone deluded enough to think the Mundi is real Da Vinci..., PEOPLE: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE STARBUCKS.. Trumps toupee is more real than this $1000 pile of hearsay. Let's look at the unequivocal irrefutable facts: YES FACTS INVESTIGATION: By looking at the various versions of Leonardo’s students’ works, one can see that Luini paints just like that work you see in the Salvator Mundi. Between 5% and 20% of the painting was by Leonardo, and that Luini was the “primary painter". FACT: The Salvator Mundi was in fact attributed to Luini in 1900, when it was acquired by Sir Charles Robinson for the Cook collection. “It’s more accurate than just calling it a Leonardo.” FACT: In June 2018, the French government issued a decree of immunity from seizure for the painting during a proposed loan period lasting up to 3 March 2020. The owner listed in the legislative document at that time is the Department of Culture and Tourism, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The October 2018 “order” also reveals that the museum is describing the $450m Salvator Mundi as “attributed to” Leonardo rather than as a definitive autograph work. The term “attributed to” usually refers to an attribution made by a knowledgeable expert, but suggests that the attribution has not been confirmed by a scholarly consensus. SUMMATION: The UK National Gallery London is an insult to humanity. Kemp & his cohorts legitimised and then enhanced the profile of The Mundi with the help of their esteemed enhancer 'RESTORER' Diane Modestini: AND NOW in London.. 'Christ with the Doctors' by Luini: The National Gallery has even got the audacity to put this Luini (Salvador Mundi) accredited painter right next to the 'Virgin of the Rocks ' FACT: Leonardo used a zinc-based pigment in his sketches, which was detected using macro x-ray fluorescence maps. The painting was also analyzed with hyperspectral imaging. The work underwent an 18-month restoration beginning in 2008, returning to view in 2010. FACT: # # # # The National Gallery of London has released revelatory new images of one of its most beloved masterpieces, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks (1491-99, 1506-08), showing underdrawings beneath the surface of the work that depict an entirely different composition. # # # # Ask yourself the question.. Does a $1000 dilapidated wreck bought in a junkstore in 2005 resulting in $450m only 12 years later sound like a good return !!
Holly Golightly i totally agree with u. U just spoke my mind.
@@daniyalg2436 Yes, nothing hypes like a hype. The “mesmerizing” eyes bring to mind a drugged person about to pass out.
Nobody cares what you "believe."
Interesting docu
lost for 100 yrs, bought for 10,000 in Louisiana and sold for 450,000,000. amazing story
Why is the music for these things always the Miserere by Allegri? There are other 16th century vocal works, you know.
zeerust2000 cause the piece is as famous as the stories about it, like leo, i guess? Plus, it is beautiful.
Why not French and Florentine music of the late 15th century??
@@scottreeves6932 I think its fitting.. BOTH give me chills
Really striking the eyes of Mona Lisa and Salvador Mundi are nearly the same.
10:03 savage level 10000
10 years later, this documentary seems to be so naive ! The reporter hardly questions the authenticity of the painting and talks about his "feelings" as a proof... Well, the truth has finally been revealed in 2019 by the Louvre experts who confirmed that it' s not from Leonard himself (even it has been painted by Leonard's assistants) and refused to show the painting in Paris next to Mona Lisa as the new owner demanded. (for the record, this version of Salvator Mundi was sold M$ 450 to the Saudi Arabian leader, who never showed the painting since.)...Finally the whole story was just about manipulation and money. Even the world most famous expert of Leonard's work, Martin Kemp, who at first said it was for Leonard (the only one amongst 5 experts to have said so) stated later that everybody can make mistakes. ...I agree the painting is beautiful, but it's probably not from Leonard.
Is bought for £45 in London in 1956. In 2021 sells for USD $450 Million in New York.
If you're saying that one of Leonardo's student copy or recreated this painting then why didn't he become famous since he can surpass Leonardo's painting skills if he could copy Leonardo's painting then surely he is more talented than Leonardo himself because he can actually grasp the atmosphere of Leonardo's paintings and make some people believe that it was the real copy...for me when you try to compare the painting to other paintings of Leonardo's it does have this angelic beauty and how the light filled the whole picture that I could never really believe another artist could recreate it..
honestly the fact that no one said anything when the painting was first shown to all those Leonardo scholars makes me skeptical. the sfumato and the craquelures can very well mean that the painting was done by someone in Leonard's school rather than Leonardo himself. you would need material proofs to say it was Leonardo himself. the pigments should be the same as other paintings that are recognized by Leonardo, for example. style elements cannot be taken as a proof of authoriship
It may be a HOAX but: The Louvre museum in Paris has confirmed that it hopes to display the Salvator Mundi, a painting of Christ, which was sold for $450m at Christie’s in New York in 2017 as a work by Leonardo da Vinci. The museum wants to include the wood-panel painting in its upcoming Leonardo show, which opens in October to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. “I confirm the Musée du Louvre has asked for the loan of the Salvator Mundi for its October exhibition and truly wishes to exhibit the artwork,” a spokeswoman for the institution tells The Art Newspaper. The museum has requested the work’s loan from its owner but “the owner has not given his answer yet,” the Louvre spokeswoman says.
This is most certainly a fraud as presented. It is not by the hand of Leonardo.
@@lorendsalazar i disagree.. I think its most definitely by Leonardo
Not Leo he didn’t paint portraits facing people head on he painted mostly 3/4 portraits or the human form in motion. Also I went to the davinci museum in Rome all replicas no original art as well. The only original I saw was in Milan.
Someone 'today' writes: Louvre experts said it' not from Leonard and refused to put the painting in 2018 Leonard exposition in Paris. This is NOT true. The fact is that The Louvre experts accepted that this painting was a true work by Leonardo da Vinci and they were desperate to have it on display. However, they refused to allow it to be hung 'beside' The Mona Lisa, in that recent Paris exhibition and MBS (thus) would not allow it to be displayed at all, in the 2018 exhibition. (Remember, there were approximately twenty Leonardo's loaned for this exhibition, but not one was allowed to be displayed in the special Mona Lisa room.)
I am left handed. He was a genius.
I don't believe for a minute this painting was done by Leonardo! It's not up to his standards in any way, and does him a disservice to claim he painted it.
I am curieus how much of the painting Is still original after so much restoration .. otherwise i think 400+ million Is alot can anybody give me an opinion of answer about that? (Excuse my english ) im from holland
Michel Stuurhaan apparently 20%
Edge Jones oké thx.. then with al the uncertainties i think 450 million. Is way to much.. but what do i know
Michel Stuurhaan yes I agree nearly half a billion is ridiculous
I would like to know who owned "Salvator Mundi" prior New Orleans auction and prior that...i am just a art lover without actual knowledge😊
I hate that the new trend is to layer advertising over news images that lasts forever when the context is maligned and now the clarity of story suffers.
Some of the highest selling pieces ... ever ... not an exhaustive list of pieces sold above $100M...just some of my favs... 13) Francis Bacon / “Three studies of Lucian Freud” / $145M - 2013 12) Van Gogh / “Portrait of Dr Gachet” / $152M - 1990 11) Klimt / “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I“/ $158.4M - 2006 10) Picasso / “Le Reve” / $158.5M - 2013 09) Willem de Kooning / “Woman III” / $162.4M - 2006 08) Pollock / “No. 5, 1948” / $165.4M - 2006 07) Picasso / “Women of Algiers“ / $179.3M - 2015 06) Rothko / “No. 6, Violet, Green, Red” / $186M - 2015 05) Pollock / “No. 17A” / $210M 04) Cezanne / “The Card Players” / $274M - 2011 03) Gauguin / “Nafea Fa’a Ipoipo - When Will You Marry” / $300M - 2016 02) Willem De Kooning / “Interchange” / $300M 01) Da Vinci / “Salvator Mundi” / $450.3M 2017
@@sizey8105 ha ha ha the irony of your irrelevance in a KZhead comments section …
@@sizey8105 … And No Gucks Fiven
@@sizey8105 … wait … hear that? Nope. Got nothing for you - cos Still no farks given…
@@sizey8105 … and still irrelevant.
Even if there was a shadow of doubt 450 million is crazy it can’t be authenticated the orb is wrong for divinci look at his other paintings
Hats off to The Fraud of The Century !! Anyone deluded enough to think the Mundi is real Da Vinci..., PEOPLE: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE STARBUCKS.. Trumps toupee is more real than this $1000 pile of hearsay. Let's look at the unequivocal irrefutable facts: YES FACTS INVESTIGATION: By looking at the various versions of Leonardo’s students’ works, one can see that Luini paints just like that work you see in the Salvator Mundi. Between 5% and 20% of the painting was by Leonardo, and that Luini was the “primary painter". FACT: The Salvator Mundi was in fact attributed to Luini in 1900, when it was acquired by Sir Charles Robinson for the Cook collection. “It’s more accurate than just calling it a Leonardo.” FACT: In June 2018, the French government issued a decree of immunity from seizure for the painting during a proposed loan period lasting up to 3 March 2020. The owner listed in the legislative document at that time is the Department of Culture and Tourism, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The October 2018 “order” also reveals that the museum is describing the $450m Salvator Mundi as “attributed to” Leonardo rather than as a definitive autograph work. The term “attributed to” usually refers to an attribution made by a knowledgeable expert, but suggests that the attribution has not been confirmed by a scholarly consensus. SUMMATION: The UK National Gallery London is an insult to humanity. Kemp & his cohorts legitimised and then enhanced the profile of The Mundi with the help of their esteemed enhancer 'RESTORER' Diane Modestini: AND NOW in London.. 'Christ with the Doctors' by Luini: The National Gallery has even got the audacity to put this Luini (Salvador Mundi) accredited painter right next to the 'Virgin of the Rocks ' FACT: Leonardo used a zinc-based pigment in his sketches, which was detected using macro x-ray fluorescence maps. The painting was also analyzed with hyperspectral imaging. The work underwent an 18-month restoration beginning in 2008, returning to view in 2010. FACT: # # # # The National Gallery of London has released revelatory new images of one of its most beloved masterpieces, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks (1491-99, 1506-08), showing underdrawings beneath the surface of the work that depict an entirely different composition. # # # # Ask yourself the question.. Does a $1000 dilapidated wreck bought in a junkstore in 2005 resulting in $450m only 12 years later sound like a good return !!
Was this the original painting hanging on the wall when the reporter went so close to it that particles leaving his mouth will land in the face of the Christ?
It is a Dianne Modestini, not a Leonardo da Vinci.
but does anyone have further information on teh orb itself, seemingly containing orions belt? or other relative information?
The Orion's belt story is just made up. Orion's belt stars aren't in a triangle formation.
anyone know what the quire songs are around 9:20 ?
Hi, it's called... miserere mei
amen
esq al ver su pintura ves las pinceladas q dio para dibujar cada pintura y ves la forma de pintar en su energia q dejo al pintar y imaginar es pintura en su mente es una energia q deja al ver cada obra como pensaba ese soñador es ahi donde entras en esa energia al proyectar su pintura lo se porq yo pintaba en lienzo
Wait 10:57-11:05 is this the painting before and after restoration? I don't understand what he is saying
Yes, what we see at 10.57 is a black and white photograph of the painting as it appeared in a sale catalog from about a century ago and by 11.05 'that' has (been) morphed into the full color restored version, exactly as it is/appears 'today'.
Monalisa and salvator mundi looks alike, how can that face be of the true salvator mundi, he must be furious in heaven humans are adoring a different face on the wall , and Leonardo is also laughing he just made that up !😂😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant man the greatest inventor artist in the world😉
It could be that the painting is a self portrait since his eyes are close up
Where is it now?
The only good reporting I’ve ever seen on cnn.
Its so sad that this fruit of human intellectual perfection and world treasure will just be in a home of one arab prince! I hope he will share it to the world as a celebration beacon human achievement
Not a Da Vinci. No way.
I love the frame
Wasn't this painting found to be by a student.of Leonardo''s w/ additional curls by the master himself?
Any respectable restoration starts with documentation, to restore something without pictures is just plain stupid, and lends itself to further scrutiny as a fake: this is not once in a lifetime, but a scam of a lifetime, it’s a fake
She probably did take pictures, I don't know why they wouldn't.
It would never have been in the Royal collection if it was a fake, moreover the crown owns the world’s largest collection of his sketches, where two, as displayed flanking SM are of the detail of Christ’s tunic as latterly found in the oil on Walnut painting.
Anyone know the name of the holy tune at 9.45 ?
G Miller miserere Mei deus - allegri (i think this is the older kings college Cambridge version under Wilcox) x
Leonardo’s works belong in Italy
They actually used the helium huffing choir boy music 20:54
@Alexander Alekhine Look up Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus Tenebrae. It's pretty well known.
You poor thing... Lol
Minute 4:54 Pause the Video. Nobody noticed the face where the first thumb is? No one??? Pause it at exactly 4:54. Find the eyes where the first thumb was and you will see the face. Someone elaborate - WHO IS THAT?
Why then have I always felt I would not have Monalisa hanging on my walls? Not only because I am poor, but even if I had all the money in the world. Monalisa and all Leonardo`s works look gosthly, menacing and my inner self rejects them. I do not see humanity there, anyway for all his technique which is amazing, the end result is dark, frightening quite diabolic. The truth for me is, I would not share my house with the characters he painted.
See all those things just a coloured paint suggests you to realize how big and strong was Leonardo. Oh, and he probably wouldn't want to share a room with you either
I like the Last Supper but I do not see the acclaim for Mona Lisa - that is a homely character. The chick with the pet ermine on the other hand is attractive.
The eyes lack Di Vinci's typical expression.
The unrestored original the eyes were penetrating. These look fuzzy....
A LITTLE bit different since
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