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Famous DaVinci Replica Returned to Italian Museum After Who Knows How Long
Italian police had the rare pleasure of cracking a case before it hatched this week when a replica of a famous Leonardo DaVinci painting was returned to a Naples museum before anyone even knew it was missing.
The 16
th century copy of DaVinci’s “Salvator Mundi” was last accounted for in January 2020 when the Museodoma San Domenico Maggiore closed its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the astute deduction that it was heisted at some point in the last year.
Though when and how someone broke into the museum is yet to be revealed, Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo speculated that “it is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organization working in the international art trade.”
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Famous DaVinci Replica Returned to Italian Museum After Who Knows How Long
Italian police had the rare pleasure of cracking a case before it hatched this week when a replica of a famous Leonardo DaVinci painting was returned to a Naples museum before anyone even knew it was missing.
The 16
th century copy of DaVinci’s “Salvator Mundi” was last accounted for in January 2020 when the Museodoma San Domenico Maggiore closed its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the astute deduction that it was heisted at some point in the last year.