The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled lot number 664.

The description of the item was simply Christ-Selveter Monday Oil on Cradled Panel.

The painting was sold for $1,000.

Twelve years later, the same painting was sold for $1,000. 12 years later the same painting was sold at Christie's in New York

for a record $450 million. Learn more about Salvador Mundi, the world's most expensive

painting and the controversy surrounding it, on this

episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The story of Salvador Monday is a fascinating one that touches on so many different areas of the world of art and exposes many of its potential problems.

Salvador Monday is a painting that is estimated to be around 500 years old. It's an image of Christ

wearing a blue robe. His right hand is held up with his thumb and first two fingers

extended. In his left hand he's holding a crystal transparent glass sphere.

The background is solid black.

The painting is on a walnut panel, it's painted with an oil-based paint

and the dimensions of the image are 45.4 by 65.6 centimeters or 25.8 or 19.2 inches.

Oh, and it was believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

That last bit is what makes this painting so valuable.

Da Vinci is probably the best known painter in history and his career went well

beyond painting. He was a scientist and a naturalist and his life was fascinating.

The guys over at the Renaissance Times podcast have done 17 hours on Da Vinci so far

and they aren't even close to being done. You should go and check it out.

It isn't just that Da Vinci is famous, which would be enough to make his paintings

expensive. It's also the fact that there are so few of them. The number of

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