For all those LD fans. 🎨 #Repost @nytimes ・・・ After 19 minutes of dueling, with 4 bidders on the telephone and one in the room, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” sold at @christiesinc on Wednesday night for $450.3 million with fees, shattering the high for any work of art sold at auction. Was it worth it? We asked Jason Farago, an art critic for @nytimes. “There’s a meekness and monotony to ‘Salvator Mundi,’” he writes, and one that can’t be redeemed by “marginally engaging details,” either. The painting retires into itself, he argues. “This Jesus, far from saving the world, might struggle to save himself a seat on a crosstown bus,” Jason writes. @benjaminnorman photographed this detail of the $450 million Leonardo da Vinci painting. Visit the link in our profile to see the full thing — and to read more about how it’s no Mona Lisa.