The Da Vinci Markup? Europe's Art Scandal Comes to America
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Bit by bit, Leonardo’s lost masterpiece revealed itself: the Mona Lisa mouth, the subtle brushwork, the gossamer glaze.
Now, several years after the world learned that a painting long believed to be a copy was in fact the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the $127.5 million masterpiece, “Salvator Mundi,” has landed in the middle of one of the most astonishing art scandals in decades.