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Christ's orb mystery in da Vinci painting


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11 hours ago, oldrover said:

Personally, I'm very familar with his work, and with his pupils, as in followers, and fairly familiar with some of the works 'after' him. Amd that's what this is. It looks a padtiche of his work. And I don't accept the pupil, as in eye, suggestion above. 

This is a fairly competent style of Leonardo painting. 

I too have trouble accepting the 'eye' suggestions as set forth by Christie's.  As you know by now, I do think the work authentic to DaVinci, so there we must disagree.  I have personally thought, since 2011 when I first saw the cleaned picture, that paint losses (likely dating from long ago, due to abrasive mishandling of some sort) resulted in revelation of pentimenti in the pupils, giving them this unnatural appearance so very obvious in the present condition.  However, the restorers declare no losses here, but I would suggest that a damaged condition was likely the primary reason for the old overpainting of the face. 

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It's probably one of Leo's many 'unfinished' body of work, he was notoriously slow and was ever late to complete any one piece of painting, or sculpture or whatever. Took him years and in a few cases .. decades.

Even now whether most of his works were actually 'completed' is debatable. 
 

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Saudi crown prince 'is real buyer' of painting by Leonardo da Vinci

US intelligence identifies Mohammed bin Salman, powerful heir to Saudi throne, as man behind $450m purchase at auction

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/dec/07/world-record-da-vinci-painting-to-be-exhibited-at-louvre-abu-dhabi

 

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