The Greatest Scam in Art History
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2019
- How a mysterious Renaissance painting was made into Leonardo da Vinci's lost masterpiece.
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#SalvatorMundi #DaVinci #Christies #Auction
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You forgot the people who to bought it to make a statement.
Were you pressured into deleting the video explaining the loophole of modern art?? I cant remember much but you explained how rich people would have there lame sons or daughters make art an sell it to there friends to avoid taxes. A shame a video merely explaining corruption is forced down then noone will know theres a problem and want to fix it
*money laundering has joined the chat*
i don’t believe MBS has any need of Money laundering, he is easily the most wealthy person in the world and we all know how he got his money, it was a flex and they got it wrong
Yes, it was painted by John Salvator Mundi in the 1970s
Because why
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@@kyedamant1323 why not
@@imjaystation2204 E
LOL
so you're telling me this guy converted $1175 into half a billy by just telling a few lies?
no he made like 80mil sold it to some French guy dealer ( and a billionaire with armored cold storages for paintings, who scammed a Russian oligarch when he commissioned the French guy to buy it for him and he told him he bought it for 130 mil so he pocketed 50 mil and then some journalists discovered he has done this on like 40 of his paintings (about 1 billion), so he sued him of all of his fortune and sold his paintings, and also the Mundi, through Christie`s that made the whole theatre around it.
*Isn't anything with art just being creative with facts?*
High end art is just the physical version of NFTs. Most of it stays in vaults in free trade warehouses, which then can be used as collateral in loans.
YES
Money. Laundering.
Art is priceless, so you can sell it at every price you want, which make it a perfect money washing item
It's ridiculous we value paintings more bc someone famous painted them. A painting is as good as it is and that's something that should be determinable just from how it looks.
say that to the what the fk priced blank canvas hanging in some random art gallery, "a work of art"
@@hpsmash77 That something is ridiculous has never stopped ppl from believing it before.
Why is it should be so?
I think it's the opposite, the value we attribute to art is determined much much more by the cultural significance, the names, eras, ideas etc. associated with the work, it's never just pure visual stimulus. The entire concept of assigning an objective value to art is a huge contradiction..
3:10 Four these painting show a distinct similarity of style. All four look like the work of Salai.
@1:06 In it's broken state you can see everything that was lost during it's "restoration", the painting when sold, isn't even comparable to it.
i like the damaged version, it's so mysterious
Imagine being the guy who bought this and watching this video
When I first checked out ur page and didn’t think these vids would be interesting. After watching a few more vids I can’t believe how well you do these. Keep it up! ❤️
Every subscriber of CGP Grey should be made aware of this channel
what? this is not CGP lol fort i was the hole vid
I was just getting into it and then -END SCREEN-
3:10
Top row, second from left is the stuff nightmares are made of
Haha!
I feel like a man who looks strangely like The Rock would later be hired by the museum director to search for Leonardo’s hidden workshop hidden in the middle of a rainforest to search for proof that this is actually a Leonardo DaVinci worm
"Modern art" is the first thing that came up when i read the title
That's a real kneeslapper!
Most of them are scams by those ridiculous prices
im suddenly getting recommended a ton of your videos
Love your videos , man ..
Thanks for everything you do for us ..
Appreciate yah ..!
The painting clearly looks like the work of Leonardo's student, and young lover, Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, better known as Salaì. Anyone who knows Salai's work, can immediately see his hand here!
But what about the original sketch that was underneath? Where the hand in the air was different
its suddenly found today in an apartment in italy. lol biggest scam ever
Hello, Tapakapa! Let me tell you a tale. In 1972, a talented amateur wood sculptor made, in just 6 weeks, a beautiful carving of a kneeling stag. He sold it to a friend for £165. Well, years passed and the carving got older and older, and more and more expensive, until in 1978 it was sold to Harrods for £60,000 and was said to have come from a French chateau. The date? Only 1530! Early in 1979, the man who did the original carving came into Harrods to get a swanky present for his wife's birthday. And what should greet him, but his carving of nearly seven years earlier! So he gets the present, rushes home, and comes back a couple of days later with the detailed plans he made at the time for the carving of the kneeling stag, oh, and a few modern nails that he was sure he'd used on the project. So he came in, said "I did that!" and when the store management asked him to explain, presented them with the plans and the nails. Omelette Sur la visage for Harrods! And fair play to Fred Sedgwick, who was the near genius who did the sculpture!
the art market is a HUUUUGE scam even worse then the makeup market
this comment was posted by Leonardo da Vinci
@Nail Karajic yes
Let’s get Robert Langdon from the Da Vinci Code😂
Brilliant video!
the problem with the original before-"restoration" wasn't the wear and tear , it was hideous so obviously not made by Leonardo ...
Ayy lmao you still going at it? Damn these videos are fire. Still remember talking to you on discord I believe or teamspeak when your friend was playing hearts of iron IV lmao
What music did you use at the beginning of the video?
What is that song in the beginning!!?
To be fair it does look like a De Vinci and at the very least was made by someone taught by him which is still pretty impressive
Funny, I was thinking that it really doesn't look like a davinci. His paintings are all so anatomically good and this one has a weird eye and chin. The texture looks pretty different from any I've seen
By da Vinci = $450 million. From his workshop = $1 million. See what they did?
Also, it doesn't look like a da Vinci - compare the eyes with the eyes in any of his genuine pieces. The draughtsmanship is simply not up to anything like da Vinci's level.
@@michaelsapienza8749 I know
Now i get it when Rick says "I take all the risk" 😂
The largest art scam is NFTs. Yes, paying $70 million for a digital copy of artwork. We're almost at peak insanity here.
Look at the last two sources listed in the video description (the Wikipedia articles). The painting is generally attributed to Leonardo. I'm sure someone looking to buy it would have consulted an independent expert. If the painting was for sure Leo's maybe it would have went for more than 450M. I wouldn't consider this a scam
Hi tapakapa
I like your drawings and nicely explained..
Keep up your good work..
Thank you..🙏👍😊
Saying 'I like your videos' in a comment is useless, and isn't providing any useful information that we couldn't have gotten from you pressing the 'Like' button.
I disagree. I always enjoy hearing from real people that they like my stuff instead of just from numbers.
@@Tapakapa Okay. Thank you for taking the time to reply to this.
It doesn't matter who painted it, what matters is people believe it was painted by Leo.
but now, they don't. the doubt is very present. today, nobody would pay that price again. but those, who had paid it....
@@nursen2106 Those who paid it have plenty more money, and just possibly somewhat dark motives for paying it.
Don't you think it's a bit odd that the de facto ruler of a very strict Muslim country ,where the second commandment is taken to be a ban on the representation of anything in God's creation, would buy a picture of Christ?
@@rodjones117 about whom are you even talking about? is there a source - I would like to add! (by the way, the Japanese insurence company/bank, which had baught the wrong Van Gogh at record price, did hide it in a save for at least two decades. because they were ashamed and didn't know, what to do with it. why should that be different to those, who baught this unproben Leonardo painting?)
@@nursen2106 It was bought by one very rich Arab sheik on behalf of another very rich Arab leader. If you're the only person who doesn't know, just have a look on here or Google it. A source? Here, Google, global news media...
I would like to address the part of your comment that is in brackets, but frankly I have no idea what you mean by it.
@@rodjones117 first of all, when you think, I am the only person, who doesn't know, then you have no grip on live. secondly why don't you stop speculating on others! it is no use to talk with you.
The real question is: How do you put a price on something so valuable?
It's all arbitrary. The price is simply what you want it to be
Supply and demand.
the price is whatever it will sell for on the market. So you can.
@@MrBiky I don't think that's how it works with art
Whatever the highest bidder pays
how was it from New Orleans and how did it cost only 1k $?
From what I remember, it wasn't orininally thought to be a DaVinci, but a copy of a DaVinci. Only after buying it to study did the reasearchers realise it was (Maybe) authentic.
Stable video👍
The most artistic hustle of all time.
And then NFT's came along...
NFT? what does this stand for?
The banana on the wall
Clearly someone has never heard of Jho Low.
Where are the comments
Yo what's the song at the start of the video called?
It's called "get Shazam and figure it out"
@@realkushman I would but there's vocal audio on top of it
Trinston was here ...
JEEZUS THAT PRICE
NFT
NFT
tapakapa is best kapatapa
My potato shirt came in. Very nice, but a bit small. 3x and above would be a good offering for the shirt, 2x was too small.
Getting back to the picture, to each his own. I doubt anyone would give up all their wealth for the picture. So whoever bought it, probably has more than enough cash to absorb the hit.
I ain't watch the video yet but I see the hashtags, big up the Christies
You should probably watch the video. The comments will make more sense
Why did I watch this at 1:58 AM?
Why did i watch this at 4:53 AM? >:(
Tapakapa - The painting has lost so much detail around the facial area that I cant agree that it is a Da Vinci piece. I do agree that the change in the thumb on Christ's right hand would NEVER have been done by a student of Da Vinci (only I think by Da Vinci himself). So I believe it is partly painted by Da Vinci's students and by him. Summary: The face has lost much of its sfumato and chiaroscuro that it looks ghost like and vague now. I dunno, I have been an artist for 40 years and my first view of a high res image of the painting made me say NO... it is not fully painted by Da Vinci.
I dont know if its the real deal, what i do know is if someone can afford £450m for a painting i deeply hope they got scammed.
That’s the saudi crown prince
@@AO00720 ah yes those corrupt pieces of shits
Why would you wish anyone to get scammed?
Tomaszini because anyone who pays 450m for a painting has lost touch with reality, is only purchasing as a statement and is most likely the despotic leader of country with very questionable human rights. That enough?
@@yakedup uhh, not exactly, because not all millionaires are evil. Someone buying this art could have interest in saving a piece of history, and who knows, putting it in a museum.
greatest scam in history.😂😂😂😂
My nibbah Jesus literally holding a Resurrection Orb and ordering "My will be done"
Jesus is Necron Gang
too afraid to say nigga lmfao
CGP Grey 2.0 nice vid
Always hated that painting. Doesn’t look like da vinci at all IMO.
Being creative with facts is usually called art
As the Roman's would say: CONSPIRACY
Imagine it was a throw away practice painting they all used and now so wacko bought it for half a billion
Hi nota squad
Those Art auctions are never about art. It was always about who did it and who had it.
NFTs
id say NFTs are better then modern art but only in a small margin
@@handson4580 Nah at least modern art doesnt cut down chunks of the rainforest
Its still the best looking piece
Wash the Bills : WArtscator
Who bought this?
Wikipedia states it was sold to "Prince Badr bin Abdullah"
@@Proximy_ what a bitch then
His country is poor and he wastes money on useless things
@@omit4727 UAE is poor?! WHAT?!
Prince Abdullah is the Prince of Arabia Saudita not the UAE
@@user-xq5og9lt8p the majority of the population are poor.
In the 15th century artists ran workshops, so paintings were never fully done by the master. Understanding the painter's identity should be known if it can, but people shouldn't be so purist when it comes to owning a Leonardo (or any other Old Master painting). It would be like wanting a designer dress or suit or bag or shoe made solely by the designer him/herself; it's not realistic.
Mona Lisa was. only he held the secret ot it's making till he died. it also was the only painting, he took with him, when he had to flee to France
Ridiculous analogy.
People gonna believe what they want regardless of the lack of evidence...... dumb 😒
after the scandal in the 80s with Van Gogh - so much changed. people are much more sceptical
400M .... or ...450M?
sold for 400 million plus 50 million in auction fees
@@ssirb2264 Yes - $50 million in FEES. Now there's a huge incentive to stretch the truth a little bit, don't you think. The biggest swindle in history.
Put Durer's Salvator Mundi next to this deeply flawed picture, and you will see what a joke it is. Or El Greco's version.
Look at any of Leonardo's genuine work - especially at the eyes - and then look at this - especially the eyes. That's all it takes to know, not believe, that this is not by the master.
From his workshop with a few touches by him is the absolute best that this could possibly be - value $1 million tops.
This Is definitely a fake the great Leonardo did not paint this. There are too many mistakes that Leonardo wouldn’t have made. The eyes are not strait and they look different. The blue robe should continue on the right side of the body behind the hand. There should be blue between the thumb and forefinger. The neck is blurry and undefined. The hand is all wrong the pinky finger is too small. There is no distortion behind the globe. Leonardo was a scientist and knew physics. The whole body is crammed in the frame. These basic mistakes would never have been made by Leonardo.
You might not know this, but making realistic paintings only became popular relatively recently. People knew how and made very realistic paintings since ancient Egypt, but those just weren't fashionable for a very-very-very long time
@@markdombrovan8849 So? We're talking about the renaissance. Ultra realistic was in. Leonardo being the best example of how in it was.
5.
can nexst wideo be aboaut how to make mani
pls
How to make money: Don't spend money.
@@anselmschueler this is 3. time somone
replied to pi comment
It is the 2nd greatest scam. First is mordren arts
450 000 000???😢
You could end world hunger for many people
But why do that when you can launder money?
But I wanted that picture
You feed people. They breed. You have more people to feed. It never ends. Waste of time.
@@S2Tubes lol
Then it's not solving *world* hunger.
Not fake but restored to the point of not being anything more than a da Vinci stencil and hardly worth the bid.. at least that’s my opinion
You should really update your videos especially when it comes to art history.
In an official authentification process the Louvre confirmed it was made by Da Vinci.
It was only contributed by Da Vinci so he did not paint the whole thing.
But when asked if they authenticated it, the Louvre said they never authenticated it. At this point, the only people who 100% say it's real, are trying to make it money off of it.
I can make a cheaper version with Acrylic paint. Looks like crap now. 😂
Broke: Da Vinci's Student
Woke (for the cash): Da Vinci
Throughout the video you have not mentioned even once the comparative techniques used on the Salvator Mundi and other paintings like the Mona Lisa and St John the Baptist. Art scholar Martin Kemp claims it is an authentic work by the master himself, by identifying various signature painting techniques, unique only to Da Vinci.
He already said there's no concensus in the art scholarship. It doesn't matter one scholar said certain parts that fit, because that voice is not convincing enough to form a consensus.
LCwavesAtYa I understand that few art scholars like Frank Zollner do not think it is authentic. What I have a major issue with, is that the UA-camr ends up giving us his opinion - jumping to an immediate conclusion, without even analyzing and comparing the work himself; he does not even illuminate the overall discussion on said subject. All he does is babble away like a brainless idiot. Watch Martin Kemp’s 40 minute video discussing the Salvator Mundi. It is a fascinating talk on the master himself, and why he thinks the work must have been done by him. I promise you will not be let down.
LCwavesAtYa I never said that one guy will have all the answers. But I would rather trust the leading Da Vinci scholar, than someone on UA-cam.
@@chad5577 Then you would rather he speak on something he is unqualified to? he is not a scholar, it is not his place to speak of comparative techniques and he does not jump to a conclusion based on nothing. he simply states that they compared the painting, they don't all agree on who painted it, they know it came from his workshop, and it probably wasn't in the royal collection. the buyer paid 450 million for a painting that *might* be a Da Vinci and *could* have been in the royal collection and why those few short words that could be true but could be false makes this the greatest art scam in history. the auctioneers weren't honest, but they also weren't lying per se, making it a scam.
Was this the same painting where some dodgy guy used smudged fingerprints to try and prove that it was a Da Vinci, and then it was discovered that was completely fabricated / you can't un-smudge a fingerprint to enough fidelity to prove Jack? If so, there's a lot of twists to this story people would find interesting
"It just works"
*"KING CRIMSON!"*
The people who bought it were freakin' rich sheiks anyway. They made their $ back overnight while pissing in their pimp houses
Wow
So funny
"The Greatest Scam in Art History" is all of it.
What an edgy and original thought!
We make the best Art
I’m British, and I have to agree with you
Goebbels Der Zauberer Give us back the MONNALISA
Goebbels Der Zauberer 🤣
ok
Not a Leonardo. Workshop copy of the real Salvator Mundi that has been extensively damaged and poorly restored several times over the years, then finally restored by an artist who was convinced the copy was a real Leonardo and deliberately referenced his other paintings for the restoration to copy Leonardo's techniques. So now the copy does superficially resemble a Leonardo but in reality is not and even looks very different compared to other period copies which have suffered less damage/restoration and are more true to the original still missing Salvator Mundi.
The historians analyzed the damaged painting, not the restored one.
A proper restaurator doesn't paint over the original paint. They are supposed to exactly only fill the missing gaps.
Twelveth
V cool
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there is no HALO! to distinquish between sinner and saint,
which one is jesus
Very one sided video. I probably agree it’s not 100% da Vinci but it’s not as clean cut as you’ve described it.
I don't tend to put much trust in what cartoon figures tell me.
What were you expecting?
there is no HALO to distinquish from sinner and saint!
First
No-one cares. (Also, first reply to the first comment.)
Honestly, I don’t get modern art, just put a bunch of strokes on a white canvas and you can sell it for a million dollars and someone will buy it.
Ikr!! I can peel a banana and put my shit on it and could it also call it modern art
Ondřej Ganyo 郭文杰 Yeah lol
@@minty_macaron yea but the sad truth is that someone can actually do it and get millions while we actual artist don't get much money and we actually have to learn hard stuff and practice hard stuff
@@minty_macaron btw Ill not be able to reply for 5 hours cuz I have to go to school in like 50 minutes
Ondřej Ganyo 郭文杰 I agree. Very sad.
i'd rather belive this is a work by Leonardo than a Picasso being art
... but cubeism. /s
@@recklessroges 🤮
Can you really look at Guernica and say in all seriousness that you don't think that it is art? I mean, art is really subjective and that mural can really past the pain at least to me, so I have to cordially disagree
@@marcosmanuelvillarreal8823 of course... great art, is just that... anyone can look at it and see it's great... this wave of abstractism ... is just a inside joke for the rich...
go look at a Rembrandt or Monet for a great painting... it makes you feel alive...
remember your first cubism? you had to be taught to understand it.... real art is capturing the soul of an object... not portraying it as a collection of ink blobs ran through a collander
@@marcosmanuelvillarreal8823
take a 10yo kid to an art gallery and show him Guernica, then take him to Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet... you'll have your unbiased answer there
Now that he has
the painting of
"JESUS" to adore every day of the year,
we hope that it will inspire MBS to
SAVE THE WORLD
from SAUDI
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
if you look at leonardos "Last supper" for 500 years people are saying 12 apostles!. no! you can clearly see a female to the left of jesus siting young(magdalina) and a standing (mary) to his right. All others have beards.why are the masses so ignorant?
Check out what other depictions of John the Apostle look like.
Also, take your meds.
Go to bad, Dan Brown
I’m sorry but your completely wrong! Under a scan the vast majority of the 1500 paint is still there. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t call the last recovered painting by the master a SCAM
So *someone* from 1500 painted it.
Must be DaVinci, then...
@@Tapakapa haha yeah or jesus jumps out and helps ya
We call it a scam because there is no clear chain of provenance linking this to da Vinci, and all the evidence is purely circumstantial. Techniques and materials similar to those used by da Vinci - suggestive, interesting... but proof? There is not a single scrap of courtroom quality evidence that Leonardo ever even saw this botched picture.
The draughtmanship that underpins this picture is simply not good enough to be by da Vinci. Put Durer's Salvator Mundi next to this flawed work to see what a joke it is.
Scam? The biggest ever.
@@rodjones117 cheers rod
@@67wdz51 you're welcome, but you do realise that I am completely disagreeing with you?
jesus is jews..why the painting looks like roman people? LOL
Thats how italians made jesus look like since they wanted to white wash jesus
Jesus was from middle East
You white Europeans copy our Asian prophets and draw them white
i can draw stickman crucified on the cross and sell it for $450m LOL
@@zafar5059 you get angry for people changing someone's ethnicity in a painting because they were ORDERED to draw Him that way, only to stereotype people yourself...
@@zafar5059 every christian group seems to draw jesus just like them. There's a korean and chinese jesus too
Terrible, inaccurate commentary.
How so?
@@michaelsapienza8749 in what way?
@@michaelsapienza8749 Six years is 72 months. More than one. Months.
And he was merely exaggerating when he made that observation.