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Italian police have recovered a 500- year- old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century “Salvator Mundi” painting of Jesus Christ that was stolen from a Naples church during the pandemic. Naples police found the painting hidden in an apartment. Police chief Alfredo Fabbrocini said the apartment owner was detained after he offered a “less than credible” explanation that he had “casually” bought it at a market. The painting is a copy of the “Salvator Mundi” ( Savior of the World) by Leonardo that sold for a record $ 450 million at a Christie’s auction in 2017. The copy, attributed to the Leonardo school, had been in a side chapel of the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples.

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