A 500-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold in New York for more than 400-million dollars.

It's the highest auction price ever paid for any work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Salvator Mundi achieves $450,312,500, a #worldauctionrecord for any work of art sold at auction. pic.twitter.com/snKxm7t3cb

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) November 16, 2017

The painting called Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) shows Christ with one hand raised, the other holding a glass sphere.

In 1958 it was sold at auction in London for $60.

By then the painting was generally reckoned to be the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself.

Head of Christie's, Jussi Pylkkanen, brought down the hammer.