Who Owns Beauty?
How art became a public good — and why this may not last
In 2017, a painting most people had never seen or heard of sold for almost half a billion dollars. Salvator Mundi, an image of Jesus likely painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was purchased by the Saudi royal family for $450 million, making it comfortably the most expensive artwork ever.
The painting’s path to promine…
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