Leonardo da Vinci,
Salvator Mundi

Leonardo da Vinci’s recently rediscovered Salvator Mundi sold for a record price of $450,312,000, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.

The Books.

This stunning boxed set was published to coincide with the highly anticipated sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s New York in November 2017. Complete with an English and Chinese language volume, each publication is filled with completely original content. Dubbed “The Last da Vinci,” this set explores Salvator Mundi’s extensive provenance, recent discovery, as well as an in-depth look into the prominence of the subject matter throughout the Renaissance, and the lasting legacy of Leonardo da Vinci in Modern and Contemporary art. Each volume additionally includes a graphic lexicon of featured elements in the painting, as well as a map locating each of da Vinci’s surviving paintings. 

Publisher: Christie’s Inc., November 2017
Marci Imamoglu, Design // David Eskerdjian, David Franklin, Diane Dwyer Modestini, Francis Russell, Candace Wetmore, Alan Wintermute, Text