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Current Exhibition
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On November 15, 2017, history was made when a painting titled Salvator Mundi, attributed to the great renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, completely shattered all records by selling at Christie's auction house in NYC for just over 450 million dollars. The painting, dated from around 1500 and lost for many years, was thought to be redisc
On November 15, 2017, history was made when a painting titled Salvator Mundi, attributed to the great renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, completely shattered all records by selling at Christie's auction house in NYC for just over 450 million dollars. The painting, dated from around 1500 and lost for many years, was thought to be rediscovered in 2005 underneath multiple layers of overpainting, torn and decayed by worm holes. Over the next 6 years it was meticulously reworked and restored led by conservation expert Diane Dwyer Modestini at New York University.
This museum is dedicated to the subject and surrounding story of the Salvator Mundi, and is the largest collection of artwork and ephemera exploring value, authenticity, and quality in art. It is also a contemporary art project that goes by the name Real Salvator Mundi.
The Salvator Mundi will forever be the subject of much interest, intrigue and debate. However, there is only one Real Salvator Mundi (TM).
Board of Advisors:
Lawrence B. Benenson
Donya Bommer
Dr. Hugh Marlais Davies - Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Robert Storr
Stephane Van Deun& Montserrat Uben
Coco & Ben Van Meerendonk
Current Exhibition
Current Exhibition
Current Exhibition
Saving the Savior
Museum to the world's most expensive work of art - The Salvator Mundi Museum of Art announces the start of its 2022 schedule with a new exhibition/immersive experience dedicated to the life and work of internationally renowned conservator and restorer of the Salvator Mundi painting, Dianne Modestini.
In 2005, when art d
Saving the Savior
Museum to the world's most expensive work of art - The Salvator Mundi Museum of Art announces the start of its 2022 schedule with a new exhibition/immersive experience dedicated to the life and work of internationally renowned conservator and restorer of the Salvator Mundi painting, Dianne Modestini.
In 2005, when art dealers Alexander Parrish and Robert Simon purchased a nearly 500-year-old painting of Jesus holding a glass orb for $1175, they realized it had sustained much damage and heavy-handed over-painting through the years. They brought the painting to Dianne Modestini to examine and evaluate. Modestini soon determined the work to be an original by non-other-than, Leonardo da Vinci – the long lost Salvator Mundi!
On display at the Museum, visitors can experience a true-to-life recreation of the restoration process as the main exhibition hall has been meticulously transformed into a detailed workshop environment with a scaled figure of Modestini delicately laboring over the surface of an exact replica of the unrestored Salvator Mundi painting. The display provides an awe inspiring, uncanny, immersive affect into the studio atmosphere and time-consuming dedication required in the rarefied field of fine art restoration.
Diane Modestini is a world-renowned restorer, conservator, and expert on 19th-century paintings. After obtaining her Master's and Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hired Ms. Modestini as an Assistant Conservator of Paintings and for years, she also served as an educator at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. In 1987 she left the Metropolitan and set up a private practice in paintings conservation in New York and during this period, worked closely with her then recently married husband, Mario Modestini, widely acknowledged as the greatest restorer and connoisseur of Italian painting of the past century. Today, Dianne Modestini continues to lead the Samuel H. Kress Program at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University where she teaches an advanced paintings class on the cleaning and retouching of old master paintings and a course on technical materials for connoisseurship for art history students.
The current exhibition titled “Saving the Savior”, is scheduled to run through the end of May followed by detailed presentation of restoration techniques and practices in the field of fine art conservation.
The museum has also announced plans later this year to expand the immersive exhibit into a full scale Salvator Mundi™ Immersive Experience. Plans include visitors traveling throughout time and space from the renaissance to the coastal waters of modern-day Abu Dhabi - followed by an opportunity to purchase some of many official Salvator Mundi® products and souvenirs. Further details to be announced soon.
Hours Of Operation
Current Exhibition
Hours Of Operation
The Salvator Mundi Museum of Art is open daily from 9am until 10pm. Private tours available upon request.
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Salvator Mundi Museum Of Art
144 Union Street
Brooklyn, New York 11231