Art historian Charles Hope, in a review of three books about the world's most expensive painting, lays out an extensive argument against the attribution of Salvator Mundi to da Vinci and suggests that the UK's National Gallery, by including it in its 2011 Leonardo exhibition, helped (wittingly or not) pump up the work's resale value. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM on January 30, 2020