Salvator Mundi

Salvator Mundi
Dear John,
" Thank you for sending this. Bravo! It must have been a lot of work. We should compare notes sometime. I have half an idea that I would like to make a copy myself—after I’ve retired! "
Best wishes,
Dianne
?Dianne Dwyer Modestini is a Clinical Professor for the Kress Program in Paintings Conservation at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. and restored the original Leonardo da Vinci Salvator Mundi c 2005

Dear John,
"Very many thanks. A number of artists have tried. It looks like a very good effort! Leonardo’s later works are the hardest of all to emulate. John Marshall has done an unusually good job”.
?Best wishes,
Martin
Martin Kemp Emeritus Professor, Oxford University
Honorary Chair of the DaVinci Network
https://www.davinci-network.com
?Martin John Kemp FBA is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci.
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With a fascination of Leonardo da Vinci for many years, it took a hospital visit and the chance reading of "The Saviour of the World" to renew my passion for painting , in particular Fine Art and Renaissance. The Old Masters have been a fascination for the world and reading the story and history of Salvator Mundi, motivated me to channel Leonardo's technique and spirit. The painting was completed in August 2021 is a replica of the original Salvator Mundi. Taking over 10 months to complete, I sent an image to some of the leading Old Master historians and Leonardo experts in the world.
Salvator Mundi (Latin for ''Savior of the World'') is a painting attributed in whole or in part to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c.?1499–1510. Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored by DIANE DWYER MODESTINI, Clinical Professor at the Institute of Art, NYU, and included in Luke Syson's major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 2011-12. Christies claimed just after selling the work that most leading scholars consider it to be an original work by Leonardo, endorsed by MARTIN KEMP, one of the world’s leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci,
On November 15, 2017, the painting was then sold at auction for US$450.3 million by Christie's in New York to Prince Badr bin Abdullah, setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at public auction.