November 15, 2017 | Lifestyle.INQ

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Day: November 15, 2017

Watercolor of George Washington command post tent

Newly discovered painting shows Washington’s wartime tent

Philip Mead was online late one night in May, looking for possible artifacts from the American Revolution, when a painting up for auction caught his eye and got his heart racing. The chief historian at the American Revolution Museum had spied an unsigned watercolor from 1782. It was a panorama of an army encampment, and to his expert eye seemed to feature the only known wartime depiction of the tent George Washington used as his command center during the Revolutionary War.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s rare painting to be auctioned in NY

NEW YORK — A painting thought by scholars to be one of only a few by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived the half-millennia since the artist’s death is set to be auctioned on Wednesday in New York, where it is guaranteed to sell for at least $100 million.

The 500-year-old oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb, called “Salvator Mundi” or “Savior of the World,” is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Da Vinci known to exist, according to Christie’s, the auction house conducting the sale.

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