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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

REBROADCAST: The Hand of Leonardo

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Sports, Business, Society & Culture

4.49.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Season Three of Against the Rules continues in this feed next Tuesday. In the meantime, Michael Lewis has an update on one of the most popular episodes from his first season, about a painting that may or may not have been done by Leonardo.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:11.2

Hey there against the rules listeners, it's Michael Lewis here.

0:14.1

We're going to have episode five for you next week.

0:16.5

But until then, there are episodes from previous seasons of this podcast.

0:20.0

And some of them actually are pretty relevant to the season we're doing now.

0:23.7

And especially one episode in season one,

0:26.2

which was ostensibly about referees is as much about experts.

0:31.0

It's about the identification of a painting by Leonardo.

0:34.9

This week we're going to drop it in because we think it informs this season as well.

0:40.0

See you next week.

0:42.0

And so ladies and gentlemen, we move to the Leonardo da Vinci, the saboteur Mundi,

0:46.7

the masterpiece by Leonardo of Christus Savia,

0:49.2

previously in the collections of three kings of England.

0:51.7

Art.

0:52.7

At 90 million.

0:53.7

Being auctioned.

0:55.7

The parting of rich people from their money.

0:58.2

95 and I go one cent over here.

1:01.2

It takes me back to the early 1980s and my first job after college.

1:07.0

I was the stock boy for a New York art dealer called Wildenstein.

1:11.1

Just about everything about the place felt like a secret,

1:13.6

except for how it had started.

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