The Irony of Salvator Mundi
“Going once...going twice...sold,” said the auctioneer, as he pounded the gavel and the spectators gasped at Christie’s auction last week. "Salvator Mundi" Léonard de Vinci, via Wikimedia Commons Imagine, if you can, $450.3 million dollars – almost half a billion dollars – for Salvator Mundi, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that had [...]