{"id":1477,"date":"2017-11-16T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2018-11-10T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T11:25:21","slug":"leonardo-da-vincis-salvator-mundi-sold-for-450m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2017\/11\/16\/leonardo-da-vincis-salvator-mundi-sold-for-450m\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Salvator Mundi sold for $450m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s portrait of Christ \u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d sold for a record-smashing $450.3 million on Wednesday at Christie\u2019s in New York It was the last da Vinci left in private hands and fetched more than four times the Christie\u2019s pre-sale estimate of about $100 million.<\/p>\n

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The price was more than twice the old record for any work of art, set by Picasso\u2019s \u201cLes Femmes D\u2019Alger,\u201d which sold for $179.4 million in May 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d (Saviour of the World) was purchased by an unidentified buyer bidding via telephone after a protracted bidding war that stretched to nearly 20 minutes at the New York auction house.<\/p>\n

The restored portrait, an ethereal depiction of Jesus Christ which dates to about 1500, is one of fewer than 20 paintings by the Renaissance artist known to still exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s portrait of Christ \u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d sold for a record-smashing $450.3 million on Wednesday at Christie\u2019s in New York It was the last da Vinci left in private hands and fetched more than four times the Christie\u2019s pre-sale estimate of about $100 million. The price was more than twice the old record for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1278,1270,1275,1282,1272,1274,1271,1269,1280,1281,1276,1273,1279,1277],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-179-4-million-in-may-2015","tag-450m","tag-about-100-million","tag-about-1500","tag-christ-salvator-mundi","tag-christies-in-new-york","tag-da-vincis-portrait","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-nearly-20-minutes","tag-new-york-auction-house","tag-picassos-les-femmes-dalger","tag-record-smashing-450-3-million","tag-saviour-of-the-world","tag-1277"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}