Domenico Ghirlandaio's Salvator Mundi Courtesy of Christie's New auction records were set for the Florentine Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan de Heem tonight at Christie's Old Masters evening sale in London. Both were in filthy—though not bad—condition, but being fresh to the market they proved very attractive to bidders. Ghirlandaio's recently rediscovered Salvator Mundi blitzed the previous record for a work by the 15th-century painter ($154,250 for Madonna and Child with Adoring Angels at Sotheby's New York, 2001) selling for £1.8m (£2.2m with fees) six times the estimate of £300,000 to £500,000. The recently rediscovered work had been in the same family's collection since 1955. After inciting a bidding war, it sold tonight to Francois de Poortere's phone bidder in New York.