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What Kool-Aid has convinced anyone that’s a DaVinci I cannot guess.
by plink 7y ago
What Kool-Aid has convinced anyone that’s a DaVinci I cannot guess.
- Bayart 7y agoMarketing, confirmation bias and price tag. Nobody would pay half a billion for a ruined painting with interesting hands... right ?
- toss1 7y agoAll that, plus high "values" (prices) make them convenient objects for money-laundering
- dagw 7y agoBasically nobody seriously thinks it's an actual Da Vinci, but at this point it doesn't really matter. The narrative around the painting makes it a far more interesting work than any second rate actual Da Vinci could ever hope to be.
- povertyworld 7y agoThe surrounding narrative bit also worked wonders for another Da Vinci hit "The Mona Lisa". Had it not been stolen it would still be relatively obscure.
- wl 7y agoI never liked the explanation for the crystal orb. Oh, Leonardo knew about optics, but he painted the orb naïvely to show some sort of miracle.
- HiroshiSan 7y agoWhy don't you like that explanation? Leonardo was obsessed with detail, and he would study things intensely, it's not that much of a stretch.
- anoncake 7y agoWhich is why you'd expect an orb painted by Leonardo to have the correct optics.
- HiroshiSan 7y agoWasn't the orb supposed to symbolize Jesus performing another miracle by not having the light warp the fabric?
- wl 7y agoThat's exactly the argument I'm dismissing. It's not much of a miracle for the orb to transmit light as one would naïvely expect. Rather, it suggests that somebody didn't do their homework.
- Deimorz 7y agoThis was a good (long) article from a couple of months ago that goes through the story: https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/salvator-mundi-leonardo-da-vinci.html https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/salvator-mundi-leonardo-da-v... It's an interesting story, anyway.
- anoncake 7y agoYou don't even have to be an expert to tell it isn't. Compared to Leonardo's paintings, Salvator Mundi is just boring. Unless Leonardo just phoned it in. But I don't think there is a way to tell if a work was painted by a student or by Leonardo pretending to be a student anyway.