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Leonardo’s speaking picture: the ‘Salvator Mundi’ redivivus
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1162-1171
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Author:
Farago, Claire (Farago, Claire)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci / Luini, Bernardino / Melzi, Francesco / Salai, Andrea
subjects:
Attributions / Renaissance art / Provenance / Scientific analysis / Infrared photography / Restoration (process) / Pentimenti / Preliminary drawings / Research / Technical analysis / Dating / Damage to works of art
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works:
Salvator Mundi (attrib. Leonardo da Vinci)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.2, showing Christ’s left hand holding the orb.
Attributed works:
2. Christ as Salvator Mundi (Cook/Saudi version), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, photographed in its restored state, 5th October 2017. After 1507. Oil on walnut panel, 65.5 by 45.1–45.6 cm. (Collection Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; courtesy Salvator Mundi LLC).
Attributed works:
3. Study of drapery for a Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci. c.1504– 08. Red chalk with touches of white chalk and pen on pale red prepared paper, 22 by 13.9 cm. (Royal Collection / Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Studies of draperies for a Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci and workshop. c.1504–08. Red chalk with pen and ink and white heightening on pale red prepared paper, 16.4 by 15.8 cm. (Royal Collection / Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Christ as Salvator Mundi, by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci. 1650. Etching, 25.5 by 17.9. cm. (Royal Collection / Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2021; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Christ as Salvator Mundi (Cook/Saudi version), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, photographed in its cleaned state, 2005. After 1507. Oil on walnut panel, 65.5 by 45.1–45.6 cm. (Collection Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; courtesy Salvator Mundi LLC).
Attributed works:
7. The Cook/Saudi Salvator Mundi, photographed by William Edward Gray when in the Cook Collection, before 1913. (Witt Library, London).
Attributed works:
8. Detail from Portrait of Sublet de Noyers, frontispiece to Roland Fréart de Chambray: Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la modern, Paris 1650. Engraving by George Tournier after Charles Errard. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; courtesy Getty Open Content Program).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.2, showing Christ’s right hand.
Western art unattributed:
1. Christ Pantocrator carrying the Gospel of John, central apse mosaic in Cefalù Cathedral. Completed before 1170. (© NPL - DeA Picture Library; photograph A. De Gregorio; Bridgeman Images).