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A masterpiece bidding war over an exceptional painting that depicts Jesus Christ with his right hand raised was a huge moment for the art world. Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' (Italian for ...

MILAN (AP) — The last person to get their hands on a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci shelled out more than $450 million at auction. Now, Italian cultural officials are making it possible to ...

What exactly is Leonardo for? To provide interminable work, it seems, for those bent on probing the nature of universal genius. Had he not existed, some other would have needed to exist in his stead.

Groundbreaking volume unites five centuries of provenance, expert analysis, and scientific study to affirm Leonardo's authorship of the rediscovered wax model. The publication represents the ...