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A painting purportedly by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is discovered at a little-known auction house in New Orleans in 2005; a decade later, it fetches the highest price for a work of art ever sold at auction. Sources: The Lost Leonardo Savior For Sale https://therenaissanceworkshop.com/leonardo-da-vinci/ https://www.mos.org/leonardo/biography.html https://www.rct.uk/collection/912525/the-drapery-of-a-chest-and-sleeve https://www.rct.uk/collection/912524/the-drapery-of-a-sleeve https://web.archive.org/web/20200524085434/https://www.history.com/news/how-a-priceless-da-vinci-masterwork-disappeared-from-view-for-centuries https://salvatormundirevisited.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/09/lost-leonardo-da-vinci-film-solved-mystery-worlds-most-expensive-painting-salvator-mundi https://apnews.com/general-news-91be03753b7d4dbbacfc4bb0d1dcca3d https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/how-saudi-royal-crushed-his-rivals-shakedown-ritz-carlton-n930396 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/arts/design/salvator-mundi-louvre-abu-dhabi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/world/middleeast/saudi-crown-prince-salvator-mundi.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsUFvwgvCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64rDJkX4HY https://artwatch.org.uk/two-developments-in-the-no-show-louvre-abu-dhabi-leonardo-salvator-mundi-saga/ https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/emdl.asp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.