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The gripping mystery Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi"

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Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi painting is on display at a press preview at Christie's in New York City, NY, USA, on November 3, 2017. Source: AAP Image/Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM

"Salvator Mundi" is a painting attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci and bought at auction in 2017 for 450 million dollars but with the suspicion that it is not actually an original of the great master.


Blackprojects director, Andrea Candiani, retraces the history of the painting and the mystery surrounding it.


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