{"id":115529,"date":"2017-12-08T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=115529"},"modified":"2017-12-08T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T04:01:13","slug":"the-costliest-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/the-costliest-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"The costliest painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Louvre Abu Dhabi is getting Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s \u201cSalvator Mundi,\u201d which sold last month at a Christie\u2019s auction for $450 million, the most ever paid for a work of art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christie\u2019s said the artwork will be going to the museum, but declined to say whether the Louvre Abu Dhabi bought the painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Louvre Abu Dhabi said in a tweet: \u201cDa Vinci\u2019s Salvator Mundi is coming to #LouvreAbuDhabi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115530 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/11christies-item1-master768.jpg\" alt=\"The costliest painting\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud was the buyer, citing documents it reviewed. Christie\u2019s declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ever since the sale at Christie\u2019s, the identity of the buyer has been the most sought-after secret in the art world and beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buyers from the Middle East and Asia have been snapping up masterpieces to fill regional museums &#8212; and pushing prices ever higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louvre Abu Dhabi is getting Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s \u201cSalvator Mundi,\u201d which sold last month at a Christie\u2019s auction for $450 million, the most ever paid for a work of art. Christie\u2019s said the artwork will be going to the museum, but declined to say whether the Louvre Abu Dhabi bought the painting. The Louvre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[59440,59439,638,59438,59436,59437,59435],"class_list":["post-115529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-louvreabudhabi","tag-450-million","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-christie-auction","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-salvator-mundi","tag-the-costliest-painting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/images.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}