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...Pylkkänen’s rostrum highlights include selling Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500) for $450.3mn in 2017, still by far the most expensive work ever at auction....
...But it eclipsed the previous record for a manuscript, set when Bill Gates paid almost $31mn for Da Vinci’s Codex Leicester in 1994....
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...Intuitive Surgical, the company behind the Da Vinci system, had dominated the field....
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...Some booked tickets months in advance; others queued for hours for their chance to glimpse showstoppers such as Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Da Vinci’s The Annunciation and Titian’s Venus of Urbino....
...In 2017, “Salvator Mundi”, a picture of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sold for a $450m — a world record for an art work....
...Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, mathematics professor and friend of Leonardo da Vinci, published his Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita in 1494, just 40 years after Gutenberg...
...Sotheby’s and Christie’s have held a series of record-breaking auctions, capped by the $450m sale of a contested Leonardo da Vinci painting by Christie’s in 2017....
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