The world’s most expensive artwork – Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Salvator Mundi – has reportedly been installed on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s superyacht. On Monday, Artnet, an art industry news service, reported that the 500-year-old painting was being kept on Prince Mohammed’s €500m (£440m) 134m yacht, Serene. The Saudi embassies in London and Washington did not respond to requests for comment on the painting’s whereabouts. Earlier this month, one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo criticised Christie’s for wrongly suggesting in its cataloguing of the Salvator Mundi that she was among scholars who had attributed the picture to the Renaissance master. He is a close friend of Prince Mohammed and after the auction was named the country’s first minister of culture.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2019 18:14 UTC