Italian police recover 500-year-old stolen copy of da Vinci's ‘Salvator Mundi’

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A 500-year-old painting stolen from a Naples church museum was found on Saturday in an apartment on the outskirts of the southern Italian city.

Italian police officers with the recovered painting, on January 18, 2021. (Photo: AAP)

Staff at the San Domenico Maggiore church were not even aware the portrait of Christ, believed to have been painted ...

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