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Everything Everywhere Daily

Salvator Mundi

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on cradled panel.” The painting was sold for $1,000. Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $450 million dollars. Learn more about Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, and the controversy surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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The description of the item was simply, Christ Salvador Monday, Oil on Cradled Panel.

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The painting was sold for $1,000.

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Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie's in New York for a record

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$450 million. Learn more about Salvadori, the world's most expensive painting and the controversy surrounding

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it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Tourist Office of Spain.

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If you're interested in seeing or studying great works of art,

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your travels will eventually take you to Spain,

0:49.0

which is home to some of the world's greatest artistic achievements.

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Madrid has Picasso's masterpiece,

0:54.1

Gernica at the Rennia Sophia Museum.

0:56.4

In Madrid, you can also find the Garden of Love

0:58.4

five Peter Paul Rumens at the Prado,

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and the portrait of King Henry the 8th

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by Hans Holbein at the Theesen-Borsima Museum.

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In Figueres you can view the portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the Salvador Dolly Museum.

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In Bilbao, you can study the renowned orders of the night by Anslum Kiefer at the Guggenheim Museum.

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And finally you can view some of humanity's oldest art in the cave of Altamira.

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You can start planning your artistic adventure in Spain by going to Spain.

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info where you can get all of the information you need to plan your trip.

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Once again that's Spain. info. 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.

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Salvador Monday is a painting that is estimated to be around 500 years old.

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