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The Last Leonardo : the secret lives of the world's most expensive painting / Ben Lewis. by Lewis, Ben, author. New York : Ballantine Books, [2019] Description:  xvi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Contents:  Prologue: The legend of Leonardo -- Part one -- Flight to London -- The walnut knot -- Buried treasure -- Paper, chalk, lapis -- Zing! -- The blue clue -- Vinci, Vincia, Vinsett -- Part two -- The king's painting -- Little Leonardos -- The Salvator switch -- The resurrection -- Lost in a crowd -- The high Council -- Entertainer and engineer -- The greatest show on earth -- Look, Cook forsook -- Part three -- Offshore icon -- LDV RIP -- Nineteen minutes -- There is a house in New Orleans -- Mirage in the desert -- Fragile state -- Afterword. Summary:  "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."--Provided by publisher. 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. In November 2017, Christie's auction house announced they had it. Its $450 million sale price makes it the world's most expensive painting. But is it really Leonardo's work? Lewis takes us to Leonardo's studio in Renaissance Italy; to the court of Charles I and the English Civil War; to the galleries, salerooms, and restorer's workshop. A twisting tale of double-crossings and disappearances, this is the tale of a search for lost treasure, and a quest for the truth. -- adapted from jacket Genre:  Art. Art.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 759.5 Lew 2019 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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