After an ethereal painting of Jesus Christ fetches a record-breaking bid in a 2017 auction, doubts about its authenticity shroud the work in controversy. Is “Salvator Mundi” a Da Vinci original, done by the hand of the master himself? How did it become so exorbitantly expensive? And with its present whereabouts unknown, where is the work now?

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