![]() ![]() The restored Salvator Mundi had long been considered a copy but. She always assumed it was an old religious icon from Russia, she said. Last week, the art world marvelled as Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old depiction of Christ sold at auction for a record 341m. The woman, herself told The Guardian that the work had been in her family for so long that she never questioned its origin. A long-lost masterpiece from Italian pre-Renaissance painter Cimabue also known as Cenni di Pepo has just sold for a record-breaking 24 Million EUR in an auction. ![]() Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from. from Henry Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope in 1898. How the long-lost masterwork ended up in the woman's house, nobody knows. For two centuries, art historians believed the Caravaggio masterpiece, which portrays Christ being betrayed to Roman soldiers by Judas kiss, was lost. Purchased by the art dealers Asher Wertheimer and Colnaghi & Co. Also a teacher, Cimabue was eventually overshadowed by his most famous student, Giotto. The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, sold for 24 million euros (26.6 million) Sunday. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble. A small panel painting discovered hanging above a hot plate in an elderly French. He was considered by 16th-century art biographer Giorgio Vasari to be the first European master to eschew the stiffness of Byzantine art in favor of the naturalistic style of the Renaissance. Barnes & Nobles online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Editor's Note, October 28, 2019: Cimabue's Christ Mocked sold at auction for 26.8 million this weekend. "It's the same poplar panel."Ĭimabue was active from 1272 to 1302. The 16th-century masterpiece, The Depiction of the Madonna and. "You can follow the tunnels made by the worms," art historian Eric Turquin told The Art Newspaper. A long-lost Renaissance painting has been found hanging on the bedroom wall of a 90-year-old woman, decades after it was last seen. According to ARTnews, eyebrows have already been raised about the museum showing the Leonardo, considering its sky-high price tag.To verify the newfound painting's authenticity, researchers compared the distinct wormhole patterns on its back with those from the "Flagellation" and "Madonna" panels. "The Madonna of the Pinks," another Renaissance masterpiece displayed at the National Gallery, having been attributed to Raphael by Penny himself and purchased in 2004 for £34.88 million, has been contested by several art historians. Expected to fetch 6.6 million at auction, 'Christ Mocked' was discovered hanging in the kitchen of a woman living in the French town of Compiegne. How it will itself be judged by the art community when it is displayed remains to be seen. Thematically, the painting shows a dramatically different version of the Christian savior from "The Last Supper," with Christ shown here in his role as the judge winnowing the blessed flock from the damned. ![]() The painting, of which only a black-and-white image has been release publicly, is said to fully exhibit the Renaissance master's hand and feature such details as Christ's fine garb "painted in blue with a miraculous softness." While the circumstances around the find remain hush-hush - the ARTnews report is full of anonymous sources - the scholars said to have been involved with the remarkable attribution include world-renowned Oxford University Leonardo expert Martin Kemp and Met curator Carmen Bambach, who were part of a special team convened by National Gallery director Nicholas Penny. According to, the painting was originally commissioned by Louis XII of France and completed in 1513. The work, a masterpiece titled 'Christ Mocked' and attributed to the Italian painter Cimabue, sold for 26.6 million (24 million euros) to an anonymous buyer near Chantilly, north of Paris. It was only after layers of varnish from poor earlier restorations had been removed that experts judged the work to be the missing masterpiece, once passed down from Charles I to Charles II of Britain and documented by a Wenceslaus Hollar engraving dating from the 1750s. Unearthed at an estate sale about six years ago, the two-foot-tall oil-on-wood-panel painting is now owned by "a consortium of dealers," including New York-based specialist Robert Simon, who have had the work reviewed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art among other institutions. Called "Salvator Mundi" ("Savior of the World"), the painting will now go on view in a Leonardo show opening at London's National Gallery in November, and it is said to carry an asking price of $200 million.
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