Christ as saviour of the world, raising his right hand in blessing and holding a rock crystal orb. Lost for centuries, catalogued as a copy, and heavily overpainted, it was cleaned and reattributed in 2011 and sold at Christie's in 2017 for $450.3 million — the highest price ever paid for a painting. The attribution remains contested.
Christ as saviour of the world, raising his right hand in blessing and holding a rock crystal orb. Lost for centuries, catalogued as a copy, and heavily overpainted, it was cleaned and reattributed in 2011 and sold at Christie's in 2017 for $450.3 million — the highest price ever paid for a painting. The attribution remains contested.Read more
