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The Salvator Mundi is a Da Vinci painting of Jesus that means "Savior of the World". It was possibly painted for King Louis XII and eventually found its way to England in the Court of Charles I. It then passed through a series of lesser English Nobles until 1763 when it disappears from public record until 1900 eventually becoming damaged and attributed to a student of Da Vinci until 2011. It is restored and authenticated as a Da Vinci work and goes on a few low key museum exhibitions, until 2017 when it is privately sold as the most expensive painting in history to Saudi Arabian Prince
Badr bin Abdullah
who was buying it on behalf of
Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman
for
$450,312,500!!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Mundi_(Leonardo)
The only reason I know about this painting is because the term "Salvator Mundi" was what was written at the end of the title sequence to the final episode of The X-Files. A show which is pretty accurate on the current events, and its short lived spin-off "The Lone Gunmen" had an episode that was basically the 9/11 'conspiracy theory' before 9/11, and whose final two seasons should be must watched by anyone interested in conspiracy theory.
Anyway I did not think much about this until I read this today
https://narativ.org/2019/01/02/salvator-mundi-art-of-the-deal-the-lost-davinci/
The painting ends up in the hands of a Russian Oligarch, who buys a house from Trump for 53 million over market price.
From the article
"Rybolovlev [ the Russian Oligarch ] put the masterpiece up for auction through Christie’s in November 2017. The estimated price for Lot 9B was between $80 and $120 million. Christies’s auctioneers were stunned when bidding quickly surged past $80 million in just seconds and then, just as effortlessly over $130 million. Two anonymous bidders continuously outbid each other, not stopping until they had run up the price to $450.3 million, making it the single most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
In the ensuing days, The New York Times unmasked Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman as the masterpiece’s real buyer but the identity of the second bidder stayed hidden for months.
In March, The Daily Mail revealed the counter-bidder was Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ). The princes claimed they had no idea the other was bidding and dismissed the whole thing as a mistake.
To be clear, these are the very same crown princes George Nader represented at the August 3rd meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. and whom, Nader promised, would pay for the social media campaign. ……………….
"The whereabouts of Salvator Mundi remain unknown; there are no plans to exhibit the artwork; the mystery of what happened at auction is deepening and Mueller’s relentless investigation into Psy-Group continues. These are all things that suggest to me there is much more to discover about the August 3 meeting and the Saudi, UAE and Israeli involvement in Trump-Russia."
So I find this whole thing very strange and very interesting. I'm wondering if there is more than meets the eye with the painting, Da Vinci? I casually mentioned this to friend last summer ( failing desperately trying to appear cool ) that is was weird a Muslim would spend 400m plus on a Jesus painting, only to find that it may be a big deal. Very odd indeed.
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