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Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: expert uncovers ‘exciting’ new evidence
Did Louvre Abu Dhabi’s $450m painting belong to an English nobleman who followed Charles I to the scaffold in 1649?
NewsAppointments
The Met's Luke Syson to head Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
Curator returns to the UK where he organised the blockbuster 2011 Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London
NewsArt market
Russian billionaire Rybolovlev sues Sotheby’s for $380m in fraud damages
The mega-collector’s latest lawsuit, filed in New York, escalates his three-year legal feud with Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier
NewsArt market
Salvator Mundi’s patchwork provenance now includes a 50-year stop in Louisiana
The work was bought by a Baton Rouge family for about $120 while travelling in London in 1958, the Wall Street Journal reports
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
‘Genuine’ Leonardo ‘sold’ for €72m on classified ads site Avito
The seller says that the painting, titled A Young Girl in Furs, was authenticated by the Stockholm art valuation firm Atelje Catellani
NewsMuseums
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed
FeatureSalvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi: Why Bernardino Luini should be back in the frame
The Art Newspaper invites Matthew Landrus to expand on his theory on attribution to Leonardo and studio
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Victoria and Albert Museum brings Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks to life online
New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes
NewsMuseums
Leonardo da Vinci’s $450m Salvator Mundi to go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi on 18 September
The painting will be loaned to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death
NewsAttribution
National Gallery in London accused of altering attribution of Hermitage's 'Leonardo' for 2011 blockbuster show
Leading scholar says gallery's own curators believed Madonna Litta to be by Boltraffio, a pupil of the master
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Museums race to secure loans for 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death
Venues across Europe ramp up requests as multiple shows are planned for 2019
NewsExhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts tried to borrow $450m Salvator Mundi for its Charles I exhibition
New London show has received glowing reviews but there is one conspicuous absentee
NewsArt market
From Van Gogh to Richter—what happens when bidders fail to pay up at auction?
Flaky winning bids are knocking the gloss off record-breaking sales
BlogDiary of an art historian
Stop reading, start looking: today’s art history students are not getting a grounding in connoisseurship skills
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
NewsArt market
Author Don Thompson takes issue with 'the last Leonardo' tagline and casts 2018 market predictions
$450m Salvator Mundi sale too late to be included in new book, The Orange Balloon Dog, but would have filled several chapters, economist says
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
A new Leonardo? Scholarly show claims to reveal master’s hand
Worcester Art Museum argues for reattribution of altarpiece panels by Verrocchio’s workshop
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is big business for Berlin copyists whose Salvator Mundi is in the pipeline
Russian brothers behind the replicas are planning a show of their Leonardo reproductions next year
NewsArt market
Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017
We survey the top five results in key markets, from Old Masters to Post-war and contemporary
BlogDiary of an art historian
How to identify a wreck
Better public understanding of condition requires greater access to digital images
NewsSalvator Mundi
We acquired Leonardo's Salvator Mundi, Abu Dhabi says
Announcement appears to contradict earlier reports linking purchase to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince
NewsSaudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince launches institute to promote art in the Middle East
Recently identified buyer of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi is planning a pavilion at the Venice Biennale, art teaching in schools, international exhibitions, archaeology and virtual reality
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince revealed as buyer of $450m Leonardo and loan confirmed to Louvre Abu Dhabi
Gesture consolidates close political alliance between Saudi Arabia and the UAE
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Saudi prince revealed as mystery buyer of the Salvator Mundi
News sent Twitter into a tizzy
NewsArt market
What does a $450m Leonardo mean for the Old Master market?
Slick marketing produced stupendous sale price for Salvator Mundi, but it sparked revulsion as well as elation
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Bill Gates to send his Leonardo manuscript to the Uffizi
Codex Leicester will go on show in Florence for the first time in almost four decades
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Was a 'double-bind guarantee' behind the $450m Leonardo sale?
Rumour mill has gone into overdrive over record-breaking auction
BlogIn the frame
Ikea offers Salvator Mundi buyer chance to bag a bargain
NewsArt market
Former Met director sparks Instagram spat over $450m Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Campbell posted an image of the Salvator Mundi before conservation, triggering a row with its former co-owner Robert Simon and Christie’s Loic Gouzer
FeaturePodcast
Podcast episode nine: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records
How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia
NewsArt market
Analysis: Christie's postwar and contemporary auction nets $785.9m, with a big assist from an Old Master
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
NewsArt market
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi sells for $450m at Christie's New York
Price makes it the most expensive painting of all time
CommentLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo marketed as a rock star ahead of Salvator Mundi sale
Painting is being presented by Christie’s as the “Holy Grail of Old Master paintings”
NewsArt market
Christie's releases condition report on Leonardo's Salvator Mundi
Pre-auction assessment offers more evidence that painting is original Leonardo but also reveals problems posed by painting’s wooden panel
NewsArt market
From £45 to $100m: Leonardo heads to New York
Salvator Mundi will break Old Master auction record as seller dispute rumbles on
CommentLeonardo da Vinci
The Salvator Mundi may have changed the market for ever—but we have been through this before
Martin Gammon on the historical precedents of the $450m sale
Martin Gammon