NEW RELEASE: Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts

Margaret Dalivalle, Martin Kemp, & Robert B. Simon

Oxford University Press, 2019


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The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts, and proposes that works attributed to Leonardo were first encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain and would shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon.

A white book cover with the discovered artwork in the center above refined capital letters in beige and blue.

Features

  • Offers the definitive study on the re-discovered Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting 

  • Recounts the story of the painting’s modern-day discovery and restoration 

  • Delves into the painting’s dramatic history in the British royal collections of Charles I and Charles II