Published on May 3, 2018
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The discovery of previously unknown artworks is often not a matter of finding, but a matter of attribution. Take da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. For centuries, over-painting and poor attempts at restoration obscured its authorship until it became regarded as the work of apprentices – an attribution that garnered a mere $10,000 price tag in 2005.