The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million—and might not be the real thing.
For two centuries, art deal…
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