The Lost Leonardo

2021

Documentary / Mystery

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83% · 80 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 3170 3.2K

painting leonardo da vinci based on true story art art auction copy of a lost original

Plot summary

London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) gather at the National Gallery to examine a painting known as Salvator Mundi; an event that turns out to be the first act of one of the most fascinating stories in the history of art.

Director

Andreas Koefoed Photo
Andreas Koefoed

Top cast

Morten Bjørn Photo
Morten Bjørn as Art Historian
Jerry Saltz Photo
Jerry Saltz as Self
Mohammad Bin Salman Photo
Mohammad Bin Salman as Self
Robert K. Wittman Photo
Robert K. Wittman as Self / investigator
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
920.87 MB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 3
1.85 GB
1920*1036
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ineke-hordijk 7 / 10

The Lost Leonardo

Saw this at Tribeca Film Festival. Fascinating story with many twists. Recommended for everyone interested to know more about the (dark side of the) art world.
Reviewed by jmc4769 7 / 10

Raises a lot of questions that are never adequately answered

The Lost Leonardo grabs your attention with all sorts of intriguing questions:1. What is the history of the Salvator Mundi painting?2. What is a "Salvator Mundi" painting? Were there other Salvator Mundi's that pre-dated this one?3. How did this painting end up in the estate of Baton Rouge businessman, Basil Clovis Hendry Sr.?4. What percentage of the severely-damaged painting was over-painted by Dianne Dwyer Modestini when she did her recent restoration?5. And most importantly, what is the evidence for and against full or partial attribution of the work to Leonardo da Vinci?6. If the attribution is only partial, roughly what percentage of the painting was done by da Vinci himself?Unfortunately, the film never adequately explores the answers to any of these questions. As one IMDb reviewer commented, the filmmakers seem more interested in the mystery surrounding the $450 million deal than the mystery surrounding the work of art itself.But perhaps the biggest reason why these questions don't get answered is the seemingly unshakable adherence by most documentary filmmakers, including the makers of this one, to the now clichéd talking-heads documentary style that eschews all narration. You hardly ever see a talking-heads documentary that couldn't be improved by some narration to fill in the gaps in information provided by the talking heads. I had to go to Wikipedia to get the rest of the story .
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