By Michael Bamidele 21 January 2021 | 12:32 pm
Police officers stand next to the recovered Salvator Mundi painting. | Image: Ciro Fusco/EPA
A 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi has been recovered from a flat in Naples, Italy and returned to a museum that had no idea it had been stolen. x
According to the police statement, the artwork was discovered at an apartment during a search in the Italian city. Police Chief Alfredo Fabbrocini said the 36-year-old apartment owner was detained after offering a dubious explanation that he had “casually” bought the painting of Jesus at a flea market in the southern Italy city.