Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi—the world's most expensive work of art—to be turned into an NFT
Ben Lewis, the author of the 2019 publication The Last Leonardo, has created an NFT (non-fungible token) of Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci showing Christ with his right hand raised in blessing—and his other hand clutching a fistful of dollars. The NFT will be minted today on the Opensea platform and auctioned over the Easter weekend (UK). The controversial Leonardo painting sold for $450m at Christie’s New York in November 2017; any profits from the NFT sale will be split between Lewis and the Hendry family, based in Baton Rouge in Louisiana, who, as revealed in Lewis’ book, so...
Source: theartnewspaper.com