ArtCurious News This Week: March 31, 2023
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:30.7 | Oh, hi there, folks. Jennifer here with your short form news round up to bring you up to date |
| 0:36.1 | on the latest goings on in the realm |
| 0:38.6 | of art history. This is Art Curious News this week, and today is Friday, March 31, |
| 0:45.3 | 2023. Now, let's get onto it because I've got several great stories for you today featuring |
| 0:50.9 | some new discoveries, auction records, museum closures, and more. |
| 0:56.1 | We are starting things off with a fascinating discovery related to the working methods of the |
| 1:00.7 | old masters and to one of the greatest geniuses in the history of art, Leonardo da Vinci. |
| 1:06.9 | According to a recent article in CNN, a team of researchers and scientists at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have found that the binder used in a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, known as the Salvatore Mundi, contains egg. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, you heard that right, egg. |
| 1:25.1 | And this might sound bizarre to some, but the use of egg as a binder in |
| 1:29.6 | painting is not a new discovery. And in fact, this was very commonly used by artists during |
| 1:35.5 | the Renaissance and even earlier. What makes this discovery interesting is that the Salvatore |
| 1:41.2 | Mundi, as many of you already know from reading my book, is a painting |
| 1:45.2 | that has long been shrouded in controversy and mystery for years now. It is believed to have been |
| 1:52.1 | painted by Leonardo da Vinci somewhere around the year 1500, and when it was purchased at auction |
| 1:58.2 | in 2017 for a staggering $450 million, it became the most expensive painting ever sold. |
| 2:07.3 | But long before that sale and also, of course, ever since, its authenticity as a Leonardo has been questioned. |
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