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The stolen works were originally procured by art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) and were intended for permanent display at the museum with the rest of her collection. Among them was The Concert , one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting in the world.
Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved ...
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 2021 American documentary miniseries about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. [1] [2] [3] The four-part series was directed by Colin Barnicle, who also produced alongside his brother Nick Barnicle. The series was produced over a seven-year period, beginning in ...
Shortly after 1 a.m. on March 18, thieves disguised as police officers convinced security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to let them in, whereupon they bound the two men up and spent the next several hours removing 13 works, including Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Rembrandt's only known seascape, as well as the finial ...
Neither of the two robbers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston have been captured, nor have any of the 13 stolen pieces been Half-billion dollar art heist remains unsolved after 25 ...
Gardner, whose museum was the target of the world's largest art heist, led an eccentric life with almost as many plot twists as the Netflix series. Gardner, whose museum was the target of the ...
The museum was built in 1898–1901 by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace. It opened to the public in 1903. Gardner began collecting seriously after she received a large inheritance from her father in 1891.
In 1990, two burglars dressed as police officers incapacitated security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 works of art, including pieces by Rembrandt, Degas and ...