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Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021

On Art, Value, and NFTs

In November 2017 Christie’s auction house sold a painting known as the Salvator Mundi for the princely sum of $450 million. The authenticity of the painting, which isn’t very good, was long debated but in the end the painting, and thus its value, were attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and set a record for the most expensive painting ever sold.

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