For a painting worth nearly half a billion dollars, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is far from perfect. The 500-year-old portrait of Jesus Christ has a shady past that includes ownership by King ...

The Saudi Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud shattered records when he bought Salvator Mundi, a 500-year-old painting thought ...

NEW YORK -- A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million at auction Wednesday, smashing previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately.

Call it the priciest piece of art — ever. A once-lost portrait of Christ by the iconic Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci sold Wednesday at auction for $450 million, roughly triple its anticipated ...

A previously lost work of art by one of the world's greatest artists is being presented at auction by Christie's.Depicting Jesus Christ as the world's savior, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi ...

NEW YORK -- A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, smashing previous records for artworks sold at ...

"Salvator Mundi" was purchased by an anonymous bidder for a cool $450.3 million. — -- All eyes were locked on Lot 9 in a packed salesroom at Christie's auction house in New York during 19 minutes ...

A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that reportedly sold for just A£45 at an auction in 1958, has now been estimated to be worth a staggering A£120 million. The oil on wood panel painting, named ...

Researchers found clues of a hidden painting that might be a Da Vinci. March 12, 2012— -- It sounds like the stuff of riveting mystery novels: A team of researchers has spent nearly 40 years ...

The tile painting of an angel could be a self portrait by a teenage Leonardo da Vinci, according to an Italian professor who claims to have discovered a coded message from the artist. The work is the ...

Robert Simon encountered a Leonardo da Vinci painting and got emotional. “I cried,” he told The Post of seeing the work hanging in Christie’s New York, displayed ahead of a 2017 auction. “Thank God ...