The Greatest Da Vinci Deal
Trump's Election Campaign and the Strange Case of a Masterpiece, a Sheikh and a Piece of Florida Real Estate
- Publisher
- Global Book Sales
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Elections, Corruption & Misconduct, National
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781783342495
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $30.5
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In 2017, Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci set a world record by selling for $450m, the highest ever-paid for a painting.
The sale was highly controversial, however, not least because the buyer was anonymous. Although it was the only Leonardo known to be owned privately, the image was only thought to be part-painted by the master and it was only rediscovered in 2005 at a Pennsylvania auction. Historian Yuri Felshtinsky shows this was only a small detail in its convoluted, far stranger history, which involves Donald Trump’s election campaign, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Monaco and a Russian billionaire.
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Contributor Notes
Dr Yuri Felshtinsky, a prominent author, historian, and journalist, is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union and its Secret Service. He has been featured in hundreds of print, TV and radio interviews worldwide. He received PhDs from Rutgers University and Moscow University, taught at Boston University and was a Fellow at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University.
