Resurrecting Leonardo's Salvator Mundi from Over Restoration: digital restoration and recreation.

Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" may or may not be authentic, but the painting after it was cleaned and before it was extensively restored and retouched looks convincing. After the restoration, however, it looks like a poorly executed fake. In part one I discussed all the problems with the image, and I touch on them again here. But I focus on clear problems we can see with the restoration itself. Then I propose how to recreate what the painting would really have looked like had Leonardo painted it. I decided to attempt this myself, and demonstrate 4 tools for editing the painting in Photoshop. Later, I update to show my partial cleaning and reworking of some key areas. Further, I introduce 3 other versions of the Salvator Mundi, and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. I discuss why an artist's eye is perhaps necessary to assess the authenticity of paintings, and quickly share some portraits I struggled with, and which helped me become more attuned to anatomical errors in rendering the face. In the third and last video, I will share my completed attempt to recreate what Leonardo's original painting would have looked like. ------------------------------------------------- If you want more of this kind of creative and unusual content, show some love by becoming a patron on Patreon for $1 a month:   / ericwayne   For more art criticism, see my blog with hundreds of articles on art, artists, art criticism and art theory: https://artofericwayne.com/ Support me through PayPal: https://artofericwayne.com/donate-wit...