The stolen work, a panel called the “Tavola Doria,” is a 400-year old copy of Leonardo Da Vinci’s fresco “The Battle of Anghiari,” the Telegraph reports.

“Tavola Doria” was stolen from its owners in Naples in 1940; according to Italian police the work than headed through a Swiss art dealer, German restorators, a New York art gallery and eventually the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

Italian officials have been in conversation with the museum to bring the work home, since 1992, when the work was found in the Japanese capital. The two parties recently reached an arrangement giving Italy and Japan joint access to the work for 26 years, allotting the work to Italy for two years at a time and then rotating to Japan for the following four.
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