Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)
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| - | This is a list of the '''highest known prices paid for paintings'''. The earliest sale listed (''[[Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)|Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers]]'' by [[Vincent van Gogh]]) is from 1987, and more than tripled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in the history of high sums of money paid for paintings. The sale was also significant in that for the first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the [[old master painting]]s which had always previously held it. <!-- The following doesn't seem to be true anymore:Since that time sales of the most valuable paintings have usually been made at [[art auction|auctions]], though that had by no means always been the case before, and the list below still shows some "private sales", including the five most expensive.--> The current record price is approximately [[United States dollar|$]]450 million paid for [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)|''Salvator Mundi'']] in November 2017. | + | '''''Salvator Mundi''''' is a painting of [[Jesus|Christ]] as [[Salvator Mundi]] ([[Latin language|Latin]] for "Savior of the World") by Italian artist [[Leonardo da Vinci]], dated to {{circa|1500}}. The painting shows Jesus, in [[Renaissance]] dress, giving a [[benediction]] with his right hand raised and two fingers extended, while holding a transparent [[calcite|rock crystal]] orb in his left hand, signaling his role as savior of the world and master of the cosmos, and representing the '[[Celestial spheres#Renaissance|crystalline sphere]]' of the heavens, as it was perceived during the Renaissance. |
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| - | * [[Cultural commodification]] | + | * ''[[La Bella Principessa]]'' |
| - | * [[List of most expensive photographs]] | + | * [[List of most expensive paintings]] |
| - | * [[List of most expensive sculptures]] | + | |
| - | * [[List of most expensive books and manuscripts]] | + | |
| - | *''[[The Price of Everything]]'', 2018 documentary | + | |
| - | * [[Commodification#Cultural Commodification|Cultural Commodification]] | + | |
| - | *[[Most expensive living artist]] | + | |
| - | *[[Works of art in the collective unconscious]] | + | |
| - | *[[Three Studies of Lucian Freud]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nude Sitting on a Divan]] | + | |
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Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Latin for "Savior of the World") by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to Template:Circa. The painting shows Jesus, in Renaissance dress, giving a benediction with his right hand raised and two fingers extended, while holding a transparent rock crystal orb in his left hand, signaling his role as savior of the world and master of the cosmos, and representing the 'crystalline sphere' of the heavens, as it was perceived during the Renaissance.
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