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Staff at the San Domenico Maggiore museum were
not even aware that the portrait of Christ, believed to have
been painted by a student of Leonardo da Vinci, was missing.
Police said a tip off led them to the apartment at the weekend
and they found the painting tucked away in a cupboard. The
36-year-old owner of the flat has been arrested on suspicion of
receiving stolen goods.
The Doma Museum collection has been closed for some time because
of coronavirus restrictions.
The painting is a copy of the famous Salvator Mundi (Saviour of
the World), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci himself, that was
sold for a record $450 million at auction in New York in 2017.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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