Salvator Mundi

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For the Leonardo painting see Salvator Mundi (Leonardo da Vinci)
Titian's version of Salvator Mundi (1570)

Salvator Mundi, or Saviour of the World, is a subject in iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb surmounted by a cross, known as a globus cruciger. The latter symbolizes the Earth, and the whole composition has strong eschatological undertones.

The theme was made popular by Northern painters such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Albrecht Dürer. There are also several versions of the theme attributed to Titian, notably the one in the Hermitage Museum. A painting of the subject has recently been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

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