Police find stolen copy of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi in Naples flat

Museum shut due to coronavirus was unaware that 500-year-old painting had been missing

Italian police has found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a museum that had no idea it had been stolen.

Officers said late Monday they had arrested the 36-year-old owner of the flat on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, after the painting was discovered in his bedroom cupboard.