Italian police recover 500-year-old stolen copy of Leonardo da Vinci painting
By AFP
20 January 2021 |
12:01 pm
Italian police have recovered a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", the world's most expensive painting, after it was stolen from the museum of the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples. It was found hidden in a room of a flat in Naples.
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