{"id":1414,"date":"2017-12-10T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2017-12-10T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T07:21:06","slug":"louvre-abu-dhabi-to-display-leonardo-da-vincis-salvator-mundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/louvre-abu-dhabi-to-display-leonardo-da-vincis-salvator-mundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Abu Dhabi To Display Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s Salvator Mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_3442049019945371772xn-location\">Abu Dhabi\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0Department of Culture and Tourism has announced that it has acquired\u00a0<span class=\"m_3442049019945371772xn-person\">Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s<\/span>masterpiece\u00a0Salvator Mundi. The work, hailed as one of the greatest artistic rediscoveries of the last 100 years, will go on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi, alongside another da Vinci masterpiece,\u00a0La Belle Ferronni\u00e8re,which is currently on loan from mus\u00e9e du Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>Painted by one of history\u2019s greatest and most renowned artists,\u00a0Salvator Mundi\u00a0is one of fewer than 20 known surviving paintings by the Italian Renaissance master. Dating from around 1500, it is an oil on panel painting depicting a half-length figure of Christ as Saviour of the World, facing the viewer, and dressed in flowing robes of lapis and crimson. The figure holds a crystal orb in his left hand as he raises his right hand in benediction.<\/p>\n<p><b>His Excellency Mohamed Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Department of Culture &amp; Tourism<\/b>\u00a0said: \u201cWe are delighted to be displaying\u00a0Salvator Mundi, part of\u00a0<span class=\"m_3442049019945371772xn-person\">Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0rich legacy, at Louvre Abu Dhabi. This is in line with our ambition to share this extraordinary museum with the world, and our mission to inspire a new generation of cultural leaders and creative thinkers to contribute to our rapidly-changing and tolerant nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5200 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.abudhabicityguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/leo.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.abudhabicityguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/leo-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.abudhabicityguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/leo.jpg 267w\" alt=\"Louvre Abu Dhabi to display Leonardo da Vinci\u0092s Salvator Mundi (PRNewsfoto\/Abu Dhabi Culture &amp; Tourism)\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi\u2019s\u00a0Department of Culture and Tourism has announced that it has acquired\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci\u2019smasterpiece\u00a0Salvator Mundi. The work, hailed as one of the greatest artistic rediscoveries of the last 100 years, will go on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi, alongside another da Vinci masterpiece,\u00a0La Belle Ferronni\u00e8re,which is currently on loan from mus\u00e9e du Louvre. Painted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}