Salvator Mundiis a powerful and enigmatic painting, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, depicting Jesus Christ as the savior of the world and master of the cosmos. Said to have been commissioned by King Louis XII of France after his conquest of Milan in 1499, the painting presents Christ in a deeply symbolic and humanist form. With his right hand raised in a gesture of divine benediction and his left holding a crystalline sphere representing the heavens, the portrait merges spiritual iconography with Renaissance innovation.
