Five men have appeared in court accused of demanding £4.25m for the safe return of a Leonardo da Vinci painting.

The Madonna with the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, in August 2003. Its disappearance from the stately home became Britain’s biggest art theft; an international hunt for the painting followed [...]

For five centuries Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper has stood majestically still on the walls of a Milanese friary, the only disturbance the slow flaking of its priceless paint.
Now Peter Greenaway, the iconoclastic British film-maker, has been granted permission to wheel in projectors and bring to life the hidden stories he sees in the [...]