Veiled in layers of mystery and international intrigue, the story of the Salvator Mundi is an ongoing, endlessly fascinating saga, told in two new documentaries, The Lost Leonardo and Saviour for Sale: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece?, which play out with all the drama and suspense of a detective story. For her part, Modestini has documented her work and the scientific studies of the painting, and published them online. SIMON: It's a truly horrific prospect. Leonardo da Vinci, (Italian: Leonardo from Vinci) (born April 15, 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence [Italy]died May 2, 1519, Cloux [now Clos-Luc], France), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose skill and intelligence, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. During his second period in Florence (1500-1508), he painted his most famous work, the Mona Lisa (ca. Leonardo Da Vinci 1503 It was kept it at the Palace at Fontainebleau, where it remained until King Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. It looks interesting. And seeing these works enjoyed by people all over the world. PETERSON-WITHORN: Yeah, and Gates loves books. His shares were of limited value when he was given them, but by the time of Facebook's IPO they were valued at around $200 million. Head of anApostle. According to the provenance in the auction catalogue, a few Italian artists own the Codex after da Vinci's death, including a painter named Giuseppe Ghezzi, who apparently sold it in 1717 to Thomas Coke, a man who eventually became England's Earl of Leicester. He decided that the Codex's fair market value was $50 million. Using monthly averages gives slightly different numbers, most significantly for paintings sold early or late in a year with significant inflation. In this episode, we're taking you inside the world of rare books, manuscripts, and Old Masters works to tell you about how we've estimated the value of one very special notebook, with ties to the world's most expensive painting ever sold at auction: the Salvator Mundi. For this notebook, we considered values ranging from $50 million, all the way up to $4 billion. Since the painting first arrived at the Louvre in 1815, "Mona Lisa" has received plenty of love letters and flowers from admirers. MASSEY: Twenty-seven million. Two of his most important worksthe Battle of Anghiari and the Leda, neither of them completedhave survived only in copies. TINDERA: Hammer is also the great-grandfather of Hollywood actor Armie Hammer. Leonardo da Vincis total output in painting is really rather small; there are less than 20 surviving paintings that can be definitely attributed to him, and several of them are unfinished. Apparently, Hammer had made a habit of buying things with Occidental Petroleum money. Various vandals have tried to harm da Vinci's famed masterpiece, and 1956 was a particularly bad year. (or simply Leonardo) (Leonardo diser Piero ser da Vinci) (Italian, 1452-1519). PETERSON-WITHORN: The person who ended up winning the auction was Armand Hammer, the 82-year-old multimillionaire chairman of oil and gas giant Occidental Petroleum. Nonetheless, Leonardos notebooks reveal a sharp intellect, and his contributions to art, including methods of representing space, three-dimensional objects, and the human figure, cannot be overstated. Back in 1980 according to an Associated Press report, the man who was the Earl of Leicester at the time decided to sell the Codex, which had been part of the Earl's estate for more than 250 years. Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. Steve Wynn, who bid on the painting at auction, privately acquired the work several months later from the unidentified buyer for an undisclosed, supposedly lower price. We also spoke with Stephen Massey, who we heard at the beginning of this episode. Billionaires just live in a different world. Thanks for having me. I've worked as well as an art appraiser. The role of most of these associates is unclear, leading to the question of Leonardos so-called apocryphal works, on which the master collaborated with his assistants. The original one is now located at Muse du Louvre, Paris. I expected to pay much more. Most art world observers thought the Salvator Mundi would be the centrepiece of a new museum or art centre in the region, but the painting has not been glimpsed in public since. TINDERA: Simon talked about how there have been a certain subset of book dealers called "breakers," who made it their job to buy books and then tear them apart, selling their illustrated pages piece by piece. Quiz: Ancient Illustrations Showing Us the Way, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci, Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Humanities LibreTexts - Leonardo da Vinci, Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, University of California Museum of Paleontology - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Web Gallery of Art - Biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Leonardo da Vinci - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up), Art and accomplishment: Leonardo as artist-scientist, Art and accomplishment: Painting and drawing. His father, Ser Piero, was a Florentine notary and landlord, and his mother, Caterina, was a young peasant woman who shortly thereafter married an artisan. He also did not apply himself to higher mathematicsadvanced geometry and arithmeticuntil he was 30 years old, when he began to study it with diligent tenacity. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. CBS CLIP, BILL GATES: Well, that's simply based on taking the stock I own in Microsoft and doing some type of multiplication. for the highest price sold. And then amid. They reflected the importance of the painting and that some of the bidders were conscious that the price would go higher than their bids. At $28 million it's away from the room now and on the telephone at $28 million. So first, we looked to experts in the world of rare books and manuscripts to learn about the qualities that make a book valuable. Please select which sections you would like to print: Director, Central Institute for the History of Art, Munich, 194770. A lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci may have been found in a Scottish farmhouse, reported The Daily Mail. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered by historical criticism, has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behaviour. Like we did earlier in this episode, he considered the price that it sold for in 1980. He also considered a painting done by Renaissance artist Pontormo, which was purchased by the Jay Paul Getty Museum for $35.2 million at Christie's in 1989. And then amid all of this, he buys this one-of-a-kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript at a Christie's auction for $28 million. Leonardo devoted 12 yearswith interruptionsto this task. TINDERA: So keeping all of those things in mind and knowing what he does about the Codex today. TINDERA: Okay, so our $4 billion estimate isn't all that realistic. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$50.8million in 2021). When it sold in 1994, it was also expected to sell for $10 million, but ended up selling for three times that. Is it even a Leonardo at all? At an auction held at Christie's New York in 2016 during a contemporary art event, Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci turned into the most expensive painting ever sold, selling for $450 million at the end of a nineteen-minute bidding war. Kenneth Griffin acquired it in 2004 from Wynn. Paintings are listed only once, i.e. This means the Codex is certainly one of the world's most valuable pieces of art. Leonardo grew up on his fathers familys estate, where he was treated as a legitimate son and received the usual elementary education of that day: reading, writing, and arithmetic. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to ourFacebookpage or message us onTwitter. CLIP OF BILL GATES: Taking Leonardo's notebook and translating them so everybody can understand the way that da Vinci thought a little better than before is very important. Christie's billed the painting as an original work by Leonardo da Vinci himself. Earlier this summer, very fittingly, as the country's oldest auction house, they sold a copy of the Declaration of Independence for $4.4 million. So of course, da Vinci never called it the Codex Leicester or the Codex Hammer. So, I think we could legitimately set the floor at that price. The Lost Leonardo is now playing in the US and opens in the UK on 10 September. So it's difficult to get much better than someone who has actually appraised an item. PETERSON-WITHORN: Exactly. The inflation adjustment may change as recent inflation rates are often revised. As late as the press preview of the show, there was an empty space on the wall waiting for the Salvator Mundi, but it never arrived. And we can go into the auction record and look at previous copies of that exact same book, when it sold, where it sold, what its estimate was, what it brought. Since the museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. The series is full of conspiracy theories about the never-solved robbery. That these tales can work in a podcast, where no one can even see the work being described, suggests how much the allure of today's art-crime stories is in the skulduggery and mystery, not aesthetics. Cole was the first to report, in March 2020, the existence of a 46-page booklet the Louvre prepared for publication but never released, which asserts that the piece is an authentic Leonardo. Rybolovlevs spokesman, Brian Cattell, told the Wall Street Journal the family hoped the sale will finally bring to an end a very painful chapter. He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish. He was known to be fastidious in personal care, keeping a beard neat and trim in later age, and to dress in colorful clothing in styles that dismissed current customs. Leonardo is sometimes credited as the inventor of the tank, helicopter, parachute, and flying machine, among other vehicles and devices, but later scholarship has disputed such claims. Early Life: Verrocchio's Pupil. In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874. PETERSON-WITHORN: In the end, we decided to take the average of all the recommendations we got from our expert sources. 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TINDERA: Robert Simon is perhaps best known in the art world for having a very close connection to a painting that is synonymous with money, power and controversy: the Salvator Mundi. For those who don't know it, it's a painting of Christ that sold at a Christie's auction in 2017 for $450 million, which is by far the most expensive work of art that's ever sold at auction. As he would throughout his life, Leonardo set boundless goals for himself; if one traces the outlines of his work for this period, or for his life as a whole, one is tempted to call it a grandiose unfinished symphony.. Qi Baishi "Twelve Landscape Screens" (1925): $148.7 million 7. However, weeks after the grand opening of his museum, where he planned to showcase the Codex and other art he had collected over the years, Hammer died at the age of 92. It then becomes a first edition of Moby Dick. But as it turned out, he also had his own personal connection to the Codex. PETERSON-WITHORN: Armand placed the winning bid and paid about $5.6 million for the Codex, which was less than the roughly $10 million that it was reported experts thought it might sell for. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci. Also of note is the decorative ceiling painting (1498) he made for the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Thanks for joining me. [15] Not listed here in this list is Chinese painter Wang Shaofei's The High Sun, which was appraised for $74 million in 2017.[16]. Therell never be another painting that I shall sell for more than this painting tonight.. The work of Leonardo is just as influential to the art that is being created today as it was in the 15th and 16th centuries, he said. Mona Lisa is not only Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting but the entire world's most famous painting. Two years later, some colourful characters entered the game. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 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They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. How many Leonardo da Vinci paintings are there? [6] Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van Gogh. But Christie's declined to comment, and a spokesperson for Gates never responded to our questions. The sale generated a sustained 20 minutes of tense telephone bidding as the auctioneer Jussi Pylkknen juggled rival suitors before a packed crowd of excited onlookers in the salesroom. The 16th-century writer Giorgio Vasari indicated that Leonardo cared little for money but was very generous toward his friends and assistants. And that's the number we're using to value it. Two new documentaries delve into the ongoing saga of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a moment when true art crime stories are at their peak, writes Caryn James. In this period, he painted very little and instead focused on his scientific activity, specifically his study of anatomy. "A Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92 Million at Sotheby's Auction", "Christie's 'Secret Weapon' in Rockefeller's 'Sale of the Century' | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art News", "Claude Monet (18401926), Nymphas en fleur", Greatest German Renaissance Madonna sold by prince, Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Laboureur dans un champ, U.K. Buys Titian Diana Painting for 50 Million Pounds, Titian deal paves way for next acquisition, "Mark Rothko: No. Then I went to those other items that were of kind of the same rarity as works of the Renaissance that had been on the market. Read about our approach to external linking. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$900 million in 2021. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. It's on the last telephone at $28 million. [11][12] Prices realised for just his nine paintings listed below, when adjusted for inflation to 2017, add up to over US$900million. Ludovicos fall in 1499 sealed the fate of this abortive undertaking, which was perhaps the grandest concept of a monument in the 15th century. As everyone who does not live in utter isolation knows, a painting of Christ known as the "Salvator Mundi" ("Savior of the World") by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Whereas Picasso and Warhol became wealthy men, van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 French francs (approximately $2,000 in 2018 dollars) in 1890, to the Belgian impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch. He also worked in the next-door workshop of artist Antonio del Pollaiuolo, a sculptor, painter, engraver, and goldsmith, who frequently worked with his brother, Piero. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the Mona Lisa (c. 150319) and the Last Supper (149598). TINDERA: That's Darren Winston. Last Supper (c. 1495-98) Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com. Renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic Vitruvian Man. It then disappeared again until it was bought at a small U.S. auction house in 2005. Later in 2002, Thomson donated his private collection, including the Rubens, to the. 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