The painting Salvator Mundi has been the subject of heated debate in the art world ever since its rediscovery in 2005. While it was once considered lost, Salvator Mundi emerged from obscurity to become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in 2017, fetching a staggering $450 million. The painting’s attribution to Leonardo da …
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Leonardo da Vinci’s fascination with secret knowledge and esoteric symbolism is well-known in art history circles. One of the intriguing symbols tied to his work, and to the Renaissance as a whole, is what authors of The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince call “John gesture”: the upward-pointing finger, often associated with John the …
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is known worldwide as one of the most important art museums, housing some of the most important works of art from the Italian Renaissance. Visitors flock to see iconic works by artists like Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, but beneath the surface of this celebrated institution lies a web …
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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio), born in 1571 in Milan, is one of the most significant figures in art history, whose works ushered in a new era of realism and drama in Baroque painting. He grew up in a period of immense social and political change, which deeply influenced his art. At a young age, …
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