Leonardo da Vinci expert declines to back Salvator Mundi as his painting
Dr Carmen Bambach believes the polymath likely only did small retouchings to the work
One of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci has criticised Christie’s auction house for wrongly suggesting in its cataloguing of the Salvator Mundi that she was among scholars who had attributed the picture to the Renaissance master.
Dr Carmen Bambach, who is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, told the Guardian: “That is not representative of my opinion.”