Can you understand what is wrong in this painting by Leonardo da Vinci? A record $450 million was bought for a fake painting by Leonardo da Vinci, “Savior of the World.” The secrets of da Vinci’s paintings.

Leonardo da Vinci Salvator Mundi

At the London National Gallery, as part of the Leonardo exhibition, the painting “Savior of the World” will be shown to the public for the first time.for several centuriesconsidered lost. The discovery of this unique artifact was reported in June by an authoritative magazine Artnews, citing a statement by Robert Simon, a dealer included in the pool of painting owners. They managed to purchase this work in 2004 at an auction whose name was not disclosed, for an unknown amount. In July of this year, Simon issued a press release stating that after numerous examinations, a number of scientists believe that the authorship of the painting belongs to Leonardo da Vinci. The dealer also said that this particular painting is the missing original, from which the artist’s students made copies and engravings.

The stunning news seemed to divide the art world into two camps: some art historians and critics compare this find to the discovery of a planet, others are at least wary of it. An employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who prefers not to advertise his name, single-handedly confirmed the authenticity of “Savior of the World” to Artnews. According to him, initially, a large amount of paint really made the painting look like a poorly executed copy, but when the experts, with jewelry scrupulousness, cleared it layer by layer, an amazingly delicate painting was revealed to them and there was no doubt left: in front of them was a long-lost original.

However, when the painting was submitted to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for research, the museum's curator refused to comment on the authenticity of the artifact. Another famous art historian, an expert in da Vinci’s technique, Carlo Pedretti, not only does not believe in the authenticity of “The Savior,” but even considers the whole story of the discovery of the canvas a “sophisticated marketing operation.”

In his opinion, only a pale semblance is passed off as the real da Vinci, the work of one of his students, and not the most talented ones at that. At the end of the article published in the official newspaper of the Vatican, the famous art critic and curator calls not to chase chimeras like “the next “Savior,” but to simply look at the painting to understand that it does not belong to the brush of the great painter.

Despite such an ambiguous assessment of the find in the press, many scientists specializing in the work of da Vinci recognized the authenticity of the painting, which allowed the National Gallery in London to exhibit her along with the recognized masterpieces of the painter.

Leonardo da Vinci "Lady with an Ermine"

Interestingly, the authenticity of one of the paintings on display, “Lady with an Ermine,” was also considered controversial for a long time, but over time it gained public recognition.

Undoubtedly, the inclusion of this painting in the exhibition dedicated to the Milanese period of da Vinci’s work will strengthen the position of the painting in the art world. However, it is unclear why laboratory studies, such as spectrography, whichwould justify the loud statements of experts and without which any assessments seem unfounded.

Albrecht Durer "Self-Portrait"

The theme of Salvator Mundi is more characteristic of Northern Renaissance art, usually conveyed through a frontal image of Christ carrying a globe in one hand and blessing humanity with the other. Artists such as Jan Van Eyck, Dürer, Titian, El Greco and others turned to this motif. At the end of his life, Leonardo also painted this plot, as evidenced by the description of the painting by the “father of art criticism” Giorgio Vasari, as well as numerous drawings and sketches by da Vinci himself and engravings of his students. To date, only 15 works of the great genius are known, which makes a find of this kind priceless.

Today the auction record was broken; an unknown person paid almost half a billion dollars for Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Savior of the World.” The drawing is blatant bullshit. And against this background, the question naturally arises: why did they pay so much real money for this masterpiece, which was also possibly fake?

The main thing is that the picture is a fake . And this follows from the historical context of its “writing”.

About the reasons for buying a painting for such a high price and what exactly this painting means, watch the video:

First, some 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 purchased it in 2013 for $127.5 million.

And now a painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Salvator Mundi” was bought at Christie’s auction 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 at all translate as "Savior of the World." This is, let's say, a tactlessly free translation.

The correct translation is this. “Salvator” translates as “vase, vessel, salad bowl, bowl,” etc. This is a designation of the vessel in which the World is placed. "Salvator" is an image of a religious ark. The same root word “Salvator” is “scow”, “salt shaker”, “salon”, “hall”, etc.

The word “Mundi” also does not mean World at all (you can see for yourself that the root is not the same). Here are a few words with the same root: Hebrew ~ man'ol - “castle”; Quenya mundo – “bull” (rather, two-horned); Est. muna, muhk – “bump”; Catalan. munt, Spanish montón – “heap”;

lat. mundus – “pure”.

The meaning of the word “Mundi” is that it means the mythological Mount World (in the Indian tradition - Meru). It is the mountain called “The World”, and not the world itself as such. Outside this mountain there is still a huge amount of lands and territories, which are also included in the general concept of “world”.

The full translation of the phrase “Salvator Mundi” means “Ark at 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 Puppis. She is the remnant of the very ark on which the ancient, even pre-biblical, messiah crossed from the Northern sky to the Southern.

Christianity, as a religion, is built on pagan myths and Russian fairy tales. This significant event took place - the invention of Christianity - in the 19th century. The authors are Freemasons. The first Bible was published at the very end of the 19th century. Its second edition was at the end of the 20th century.

The basis of the plot about Jesus Christ is set out in the Russian fairy tale “By To 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, docks at 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 that ark, which simultaneously contains both the female part and the male part. Therefore, in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, the upper, male part of the picture is the man’s face, and the lower, female part is the woman’s chest and body.

Leonardo depicted Jesus Christ as a single ark carrying female and male sexual characteristics. From this faith, by the way, comes the European disease of society, where the brain damage of believers breeds gays and lesbians. 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 English – the name “GenRich”, in the total tradition “America Rus'”, in the geographical tradition – “Antarctica Arctic”, etc. All translations are equivalent: bottom – female, top – male.

In Leonardo da Vinci's painting, Jesus Christ holds a spherical model of the Earth. It is made in the form of a glass ball. Why glass? This is done to show that the depicted model of the earth 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. Lots of details here. Which, however, can be composed by anyone. Here are the heart-wrenching details:

« As noted by Leonardo da Vinci expert Luc Sayson, the painting may have been painted for the French royal house and came to England after Charles I married the French princess Henrietta Maria in 1625. At the same time, master Vaclav Hollar, apparently on the queen’s orders, 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 had returned to the royal collection under Charles II. According to some reports, she was in personal account king. After 1763, traces of the painting were 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 of New York University. The following year, a group of internationally recognized experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci studied the painting at the National Gallery in London and compared the painting style with another famous work master "Madonna of the Rocks".

According to one group of experts, Salvator Mundi dates from the end of Leonardo da Vinci's Milanese period in the 1490s, when the master painted 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, when he published his work on the heliocentric system - “On the Rotation of the Celestial Spheres”. After this, it took several more decades and centuries before the Earth, in the minds of scientists, took on a spherical shape.

Even Nicolaus Copernicus himself is depicted from the same perspective as the character in the 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 a sphere at all.

Thus, Leonardo da Vinci could not depict something that no one knew anything about in his time. Of course, it is tempting to be deceived by genius and providence. But a fact is a fact. The spherical Earth became traditional only in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The date of painting of the painting “Salvator Mundi” should be attributed to this time, that is, “The Ark at the Mountain” - this is a canvas of the 17th - 19th centuries. And, of course, a fake.

Andrey Tyunyaev, editor-in-chief of the President newspaper

Salvator Mundi or Salvator Mundi, a 500-year-old work confidently attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sold on November 15, 2017 at Christie's in New York for $450,312,500 (including premium). The image of Jesus Christ, which has already been dubbed the “male Mona Lisa,” has become not only a record holder among paintings at public auctions, but also the most expensive painting on the planet, reports Vlad Maslov, a columnist for the art website Arthive. Today, only less than 20 paintings by the Renaissance genius are known, and “Savior of the World” is the last one remaining in private hands. Others belong to museums and institutes.

Leonardo da Vinci. Savior of the World (Salvator Mundi). 1500, 65.7×45.7 cm

The work has been called “the greatest artistic discovery” of the last century. Almost a thousand collectors, antique dealers, advisors, journalists and spectators gathered for the auction in the main auction hall at Rockefeller Center. Several thousand more followed the sale in live. The betting battle started at $100 million and lasted less than 20 minutes. After the price rose from $332 million in one step to $350 million, the battle was fought by only two contenders. The price of 450 million, named by the buyer over the phone, became the final price. Currently the identity of the new owner historical paintings- including gender and even region of residence - are kept secret.

The previous record at public auction was set by Pablo Picasso’s “Women of Algiers (Version O)” – $179.4 million at Christie’s sale in New York in 2015.

The highest price for a work by any old master was paid at Sotheby's in 2002 - $76.7 million for "The Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens. The painting belongs to a private collector, but is exhibited in Art gallery Ontario in Toronto.

And the most expensive work by da Vinci himself was the silver needle drawing “Horse and Rider” - $11.5 million at a sale in 2001.

Although the current owner of the “Savior of the World” remains incognito for now, the name of the seller is known. This is Russian-born billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, head of the AS Monaco football club. When researching provenance, experts were able to find out that “Savior of the World” was sold in 1958 as an alleged copy for only 45 pounds sterling ($60 at current prices). After that, it disappeared for decades and reappeared at a regional US auction in 2005 without attribution. The price is believed to have been less than $10,000. In 2011, after years of research and restoration, the painting appeared at an exhibition at the National Gallery in London, which finally assigned it to Leonardo da Vinci.

In 2007 - 2010, “Savior of the World” was restored by Diana Modestini from New York. “Crudely superimposed and distorting later layers were removed, and damaged fragments were carefully and meticulously restored,” Christie’s experts write, adding that such losses are “expected in most paintings over 500 years old.”

There are two aspects to this. The first concerns the painterly qualities of this canvas, and this is a question for art historians. From the point of view of a cultural scientist who defended his dissertation on the cultural aspects of the art market, I can say that the high cost is due to the fact that there are only about twenty works by Leonardo Da Vinci that have survived to this day. And most of them are in museum collections.

This painting is actually the only one that was in private hands. Because Leonardo's museum works are extremely unlikely to ever come to market. It is very difficult to transport such paintings even to temporary exhibitions. They are actually restricted from traveling abroad due to possible risk and difficulties associated with logistics and the amount of insurance.

How exactly did this work end up on the market and why was this possible? In 1958, it was sold at Sotheby's for 45 pounds. For some time, Da Vinci's authorship of this work was lost. It was attributed to the brushes of one of his followers or students. And only in the mid-2000s it was bought at auction and after carried out research work it was decided that the author was still Leonardo. Therefore, such a sale became possible.

But again, why did this work sell for such a sum? Because there is an auction market and a buyer was found willing to pay that kind of money. Leonardo is not only the greatest master of the Renaissance, but for many centuries in general the number one artist in the mass consciousness (until Van Gogh, Picasso and Dali slightly moved him in the 20th century), a key figure in the Western European picture of the world. I can’t say exactly who he is bought. It was sold at Christie's auction by a buyer who wished to remain anonymous, that is, the sale was made over the phone through an auction employee. What will he do with it in the future? I think it is unlikely that he will speculate on it in the near future. This is pointless, that's all equally, no museum in the world will be able to afford to purchase it, although many may hope to receive it sooner or later from the mysterious tycoon as a gift or for safekeeping.

What will he do with her in the future? I think that in the near future he is unlikely to speculate on it. He will wait for the next moment. But not a single museum in the world can afford to purchase it. And it also seems difficult to speculate on an item that has broken the price record.

With a little knowledge of the market, none of this is a mystery. Such a purchase is made to legitimize a large collection, private or museum. Some world museums can easily afford this, since some of them operate with state budgets - but in most cases they simply do not need it. I do not rule out that this could be another purchase of Dubai, but it is more likely a large private collector. Until the death of the new owner, there can be no talk of any resale, but most likely we will see the painting in a year or two at the opening of a new private museum or as part of a large addition to an existing one.

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In Dubai, Muslims will not be interested in their picture with the plot of the savior of the world. The buyer is either European or American. which is most likely. It was bought for such a sum only because of its exclusivity and as a rare find of a brush by a well-known author, and for the subject matter. There are no other paintings by Leonardo depicting the Savior. More precisely, there was a version that it was he who painted the shroud for Turin, or rather initially for the house of Medici, until research was carried out on its authenticity. Most likely, he had similar attempts and are reflected in this painting. actually Leonardo is not greatest artist Renaissance, and certainly not a celestial being. He is a researcher and, in principle, in his time, more of a showman than a temple artist. It was precisely through his cynicism and hypocrisy that he acquired earthly fame, which distinguished him from other artists of his time. The painting was purchased at the peak of its price; it will be simply impossible to speculate on it for the next 50 years. but apparently the spirit of Leonardo is very close to the person, since he invested in it. Everyone sees the Savior in their own way, apparently this image suits the buyer most

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Dubai itself will not be interested, but Dubai has an agreement with the Louvre to buy back such items if they survive to public auction. Usually they just don’t survive. They could have missed it to make an event, why not.

He's already been dubbed the Male Mona Lisa, and he's what Christie's is declaring "the biggest discovery of the 21st century."
A New York auction house this morning unveiled its previously secret and "most exciting acquisition to date": Salvator Mundi (Salvator Mundi), a previously lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci that is believed to be the artist's last painting. "Salvator Mundi is the holy grail of artistic discovery," said Alex Rotter, Christie's co-chairman.

The painting is one of a few - there are only about 15 Da Vinci paintings known to exist. (To understand the importance of this event in the art world, imagine that last time It was 1909 when Da Vinci was discovered.)

It was hidden behind Christie's opaque sliding glass doors until the announcement was made - an invitation to a press conference "You are invited to the first ever openingan unprecedented masterpiece" (“You are invited to a first-ever unveiling of AN UNPRECEDENTED MASTERPIECE”)was written under a giant question mark in a gilded frame.The painting originally hung in the collection of King Charles I and depicted the blessed Jesus Christ, dressed in azure robes and holding an orb, one arm extended upward; The Mona Lisa was painted around the same time.

Salvator Mundi first appeared in 2005 (it sold at Sotheby's for £45 in 1958) and was presented at the National Gallery in London in 2011; the director of the National Gallery called its arrival "an event greater than the discovery of a new planet."

Immediately after today's press conference, the film will tour the world, appearing in Hong Kong, San Francisco and London, before returning to New York, where it will be exhibited​​for auction.

Of the 15 Da Vinci paintings currently known, Salvator Mundi is the only one in private hands. It will be sold at Christie's auction, and the estimated price is $100 million. “Who will buy it?” - said Guzer. “Who knows. But there would be no Louvre without the Mona Lisa, and there would probably be no Paris without the Louvre; whoever buys it will perpetuate his name, his collection, most likely, and probably his city.”