Wolfgang Beltracchi: The Return of Salvator Mundi

This volume explores Wolfgang Beltracchi’s unusual painting series, The Greats.

In recent years, painter and legendary art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi has opened a new chapter of his career. The core of his latest work is an extensive series of paintings, titled The Greats, which have been put on sale as digital artworks using NFT technology. Its starting point was the Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and sold in 2017 in an auction at Christie’s in New York for 450 ...