The 500-year-old oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb, called Salvator Mundi — or Saviour of the World — is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci known to exist.

Salvator Mundi, a $450 million painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, has not been seen publicly since it sold at Christie's in 2017, the year it became the most expensive artwork ever auction.

One of the many weird things about the sale of the Salvator Mundi for $450 million (£337 million) was the repeated claim of Christie’s that it was ‘the last Leonardo painting left in private hands’.

Since its sale for a record US$450 million, the whereabouts of the Salvator Mundi, said to be painted by Leonardo da Vinci, has become one of the art world's greatest mysteries. On Monday ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, depicting Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the World (the painting's English title), sold at a Christie's auction in New York in 2017 for US$450 million ...

Documentary exploring the case of the missing Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century which has now seemingly ...