Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s.
Campbell, Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life ... his entire personality. Leonardo’s genius, and the ambiguous allure of his paintings, were symptomatic traces of a repressed or sublimated homosexuality.
The world was on the cusp of great change in 1909. The Edwardian era, with its opulent lifestyle and rigid social structures, was in full swing. Yet, amid the grandeur and societal norms, a storm ...