A critique of da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which broke the record for the most expensive art sold at auction.

The Morning News http://ift.tt/2yJvPmV

Over time, its wood surface became cracked and chafed, and it had been crudely overpainted, as an image in the sale catalog shows. The painting now appears in some limbo state between its original form and an exacting, though partially imagined, rehabilitation.

↩︎ The New York Times

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