The greatest art find of all time?
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An excerpt taken from a lecture by Professor Martin Kemp called 'Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery'
The newly discovered Salvator by Leonardo, the world’s most costly picture, is one of his most notable creations, in which he used his ‘science of art’ to transform a stock subject into a profound expression of the ineffability of the divine.
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