'Salvator Mundi': Leonardo da Vinci's missing masterpiece?

‘Salvator Mundi’ is a painting surrounded by mysteries. In this talk, Professor Martin Kemp FBA explores evidence that it is indeed a work of Leonardo Da Vinci, the painting’s key components, and the alleged whereabouts of the ‘Salvator Mundi’ today. Speaker: Professor Martin Kemp FBA, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford This video is for informative and educational purposes. To read a blog version of this talk, please visit our website: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/salvator-mundi-leonardo-da-vincis-missing-masterpiece/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=10mintalks&utm_content=cta 10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Friday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/10-minute-talks/id1530020476 Subtitles, also known as closed captions, are available on our YouTube videos. You can access them by clicking on the 'CC' button or gear icon on the video. The 'CC' button and gear icon are usually located at the bottom of videos. Find out more about the British Academy: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/ For future events, visit our website: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/ Subscribe to our email newsletter: https://email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/p/6P7Q-5PO/newsletter Images included in this video: 0:33 - Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci c.1490-1519, oil on panel, private collection. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images) 01:22 - The drapery of a sleeve, Leonardo da Vinci c.1504-8. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024 | Royal Collection Trust. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. 01:28 - The drapery of a chest and sleeve, Leonardo da Vinci c.1504-8. © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024 | Royal Collection Trust. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. 01:41 - Salvator mundi by Wenceslaus Hollar; after Leonardo da Vinci, 1650. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. 01:41 - Anonymous, Salvator Mundi (Cristo Redentore benedicente), first half of XVI century, Worsey Collection. 01:41 - Salvator mundi prima del restauro, c. 1499, Cook Collection 1913. 01:41 - Salvator mundi, copy, from the Ganay collection. 01:41 - Gerolamo Alibrandi, Studio di Leonardo, Cristo come Salvator Mundi, c.1519, Museo di San Domenico Maggiore. Fondo Edifici di Culto -Ministero dell'Interno. 01:41 - Anonymous, Christ as Salvator Mundi, Zurich, Private collection, former Viktor Stark Collection. 01:41 – Copy, Christ as Salvador Mundi, Circle of Leonardo da Vinci c. 1452–1519. 01:41 - Cesare da Sesto, Salvator Mundi (1516–1517). Wilanów Palace, Warsaw 01:41 – Salvator Mundi, copy, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, 16th century. 03:10 – Leonardo da Vinci c1472-c1519. From The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vol. 1 by Jean Paul Richter, PH. DR. [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1883]. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) 05:10 - Raffaello Sanzio, Prime Mover, 1509-11, Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican. © Web Gallery of Art 05:43 - Leonardo Da Vinci, Optics of the Eye (Paris, Institut de France, Manuscript D) 06:36 - Leonardo da Vinci, Saint John the Baptist. Around 1508-1519. Paris, Musée du Louvre. © 2016 Louvre 09:06 - Christie's To Auction Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" Painting. Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images