
The Last Leonardo
The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, therecently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing.
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 16th 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.
Praise for The Last Leonardo
“The story of the world’s most expensive painting is narrated with great gusto and formidably researched detail in Ben Lewis’s book.... Lewis’s probings of the Salvator’s backstory raise questions about its historical status and visibility, and these lead in turn to the fundamental question of whether the painting is really an autograph work by Leonardo.” (Charles Nicholl, The Guardian)
“As the art historian and critic Ben Lewis shows in his forensically detailed and gripping investigation into the history, discovery and sales of the painting, establishing the truth is like nailing down jelly.” (Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times)
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- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired artists who ever lived. As Edward Dolnick reveals, his true genius lay in psychological manipulation, and he came within inches of fooling the world. Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life.
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Disappointing rehash of others’ work
- De Adeliese Baumann en 07-03-24
De: Edward Dolnick
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The Rescue Artist
- A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
- De: Edward Dolnick
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.
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Fascinating, educational, and a great police story
- De MAGJAG en 06-29-19
De: Edward Dolnick
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- De: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
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The best narrator I have ever listened to on an Audible!
- De William P. Anderson en 03-15-25
De: Natalie Dykstra
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Sargent's Women
- Four Lives Behind the Canvas
- De: Donna M. Lucey
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives.
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Bust for a big Sargent fan!
- De Jennifer en 11-26-17
De: Donna M. Lucey
Engaging and Enjoyable
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A mystery and a history lesson. I will need to digest the 450 million dollar cost.
Outstanding book!!! I got a full size picture of SALVATOR MUNDI to study as I read/listened. I have it on Audible and the book..
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Fantastic!!
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Fascinating
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Definitely makes you think.
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Fascinating story
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worth listening to
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I enjoyed the narrator as well. I have been talking about this book so much just so I can imitate Noble saying, “Wenceslaus Hollar.” I did have to go back through portions of the book due to some densely packed but not densely stated periods of possible providence. Just as good the second time around for those sections as the first.
Recommend watching “The Lost Leonardo” documentary as a supplement to this book. I hope the picture makes an appearance again.
Enjoy!
Say Wenceslaus Hollar Again!
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Interesting and informative
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Very interesting
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