The Lost Leonardo (2021) on Netflix
PG-1320211h 36mDocumentary
In 2005, art dealers Alexander Parish and Robert Simon buy a painting at a New Orleans auction for $1,175. Restorer Dianne Modestini cleans it and finds signs of an original work.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.4/103,251 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes98%
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Plot summary
At a 2005 auction in New Orleans, the art dealers Alexander Parish and Robert Simon pay $1,175 for a panel listed as "After Leonardo," the painting that comes to be known as the Salvator Mundi. They suspect it is by a better hand. In New York, the restorer Dianne Modestini cleans away overpainting and finds that a thumb has been repositioned and that the lips are drawn without a line, signs she takes for Leonardo. Her work on the picture continues for years. In 2008 a National Gallery curator, Luke Syson, brings Leonardo experts including Maria Teresa Fiorio and Martin Kemp to examine it, and in 2011 the gallery includes it in an exhibition labeled by Leonardo. Art historians and critics weigh in on the provenance and authenticity of the painting as its price climbs.
Cast
- Warren Adelsonas Self - Art Dealer
- Evan Beardas Self
- Yves Bouvieras Self
- Alexandra Bregmanas Self
- Dianne Dwyer Modestinias Self
- Maria Teresa Fiorioas Self
- Antoine Hararias Self
- Bruce Lamarcheas Self
- Alexander Parishas Self
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lost Leonardo (2021)
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- The Salvator Mundi painting the film follows was bought in 2005 for $1,175 and sold at auction in 2017 for $450 million, when it became the most expensive artwork ever sold.
- Producer Andreas Dalsgaard told BBC Culture that the title came partly from the painting and the truth being lost, and partly from movies like the Indiana Jones films, which he called full of treasures and treasure hunts.
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