Final piece of 17th-century tapestry stolen 42 years ago found by Spanish police

Flemish work taken by notorious art thief Erik the Belgian' tracked down by officer doing academic research on art thefts

Spanish police have recovered the final piece of a 17th-century tapestry that was stolen 42 years ago by a notorious art thief.

The 4-metre by 6.5-metre tapestry, known as La apoteosis de las artes (The Apotheosis of the Arts), was one of six Flemish tapestries taken from the church of Santo Domingo in the town of Castrojeriz in northern Spain, in the early hours of 7 November 1980.