{"product_id":"wolfgang-beltracchi-alberto-venzago-9783039421428","title":"Wolfgang Beltracchi: The Return of Salvator Mundi","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume explores Wolfgang Beltracchi's unusual painting series, \u003ci\u003eThe Greats\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e The Greats\u003c\/i\u003e, which have been put on sale as digital artworks using NFT technology. Its starting point was the\u003ci\u003e Salvator Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and sold in 2017 in an auction at Christie's in New York for 450 million to an unknown buyer. Beltracchi studied the picture meticulously and created several hundred versions of the motif in a variety of styles. The result is a fascinating game of deception with the disputed painting and its symbolism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This large-format book combines photographic insights into Beltracchi's everyday life in the studio by renowned Swiss photographer Alberto Venzago with documentation of \u003ci\u003eThe Greats \u003c\/i\u003ecollection. Essays by luminaries such as Stanford University professor emeritus Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, German philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Markus Gabriel, and others, as well as a conversation between Beltracchi and Swiss writer René Scheu round out this volume that describes and interprets the phenomenon of this extraordinary artist from a range of perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alberto Venzago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3039421425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783039421428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scheidegger and Spiess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 13.07h x 9.69w x 0.94d","brand":"Alberto Venzago","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44410605502719,"sku":"9783039421428","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17a6400a-d5ef-45df-a9f8-c23ed54b031f.jpg?v=1697536954","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wolfgang-beltracchi-alberto-venzago-9783039421428","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}