The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting Sherlock Holmes Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik

Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik

from Esther to Zacchaeus

detectives

As an Elizabethan you could find yourself tortured if your religion fell out of favor

when there was neither treatment nor cure

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting Sherlock Holmes Chris Clearfield and András TilcsikIn 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting, the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as saviour of the world is 'the rarest thing