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Is the most expensive painting in the world "Salvatore Mendy by Leonardo da Vinci" a fake ?!

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  Salvatore Mendy An art expert has said that the magnificent Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive in the world, is a fake. Expert Jacques Franck told the famous Louvre Museum staff that "the Salvator Mundi is not Leonardo," and raised many questions about the painting's authenticity due to the many restorations it has undergone. The newspaper "Sunday Telegraph" reported that the painting was supposed to be displayed in the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, but the museum canceled the show, while the main Louvre in Paris did the same. Frank said he had written to French President Emmanuel Macron to raise his concerns that his country would be "humiliated" if the painting appeared in Paris. Frank explained, "The Louvre is the largest university museum for Leonardo's works in the world. It has the Mona Lisa, the Virgin, the Child, Saint Anne, the Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin of the Rocks and others," and it would be...

Review of Gustav Klimt's painting The Kiss

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The kiss   The Kiss by Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (in German der Kos) is an oil painting on canvas with gold, silver, and platinum leaves by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, painted sometime in 1907 and 1908, at the height of what he calls Scholars "Golden Period". The painting was exhibited in 1908, under the title Lipspar (Lovers) as mentioned in the exhibition catalog. This painting depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in beautiful elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by contemporary Art Nouveau and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. This painting now hangs in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Belvedere, Vienna and is considered a masterpiece of the Vienna Secession (a local variation of Art Nouveau) and Klimt's best known work. Review of the Kiss: I can see in the works of Klimt that love and intimacy are common themes; (Stoclet Frieze and Beethoven Frieze) Examples of Klimt's focus on romantic intima...

Review Guernica paint

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 Today, our paint is a very Unique one, for me it  has a special, intensive and tragic message. It's called  Guernica by Pablo Picasso . Guernica Guernica in Spanish language means a town in Spain which included the seat of Basque parliament; destroyed in 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish civil war.  Guernica; It is a mural painting inspired by the bombing of Guernica when a German warplane with the support of  Italy bombed the city on April 26, 1937 with the aim of spreading panic and fear to the resistance forces during the Spanish Civil War during the government authority of the Second Spanish Republic from 1931 to 1939.  A painter drawing a fresco to be displayed in the Spanish Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, which was held in Paris in 1937. The painting included the use of oil colors and burlap, and several colors were used, namely; Dark blue, black and white, about 3.5 meters long and...