The Salvator Mundi (“Savior of the World”) is one of the most significant and theologically rich subjects in Western European art. Christ is depicted frontally: his right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing, while his left supports an imperial sphere, a symbol of the universe. This iconographic type can be understood as drawing on both the Byzantine image of Christ Pantocrator and the Western tradition of the cosmic orb (globus), a symbol of universal sovereignty under di