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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money. She was a friend of noted artists and writers of the ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft. Coordinates: 42.338°N 71.099°W. The frame which once held Rembrandt 's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a ...
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 ...
The Concert (Dutch: Het concert) (c. 1664) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a man and two women performing music. It was stolen on March 18, 1990, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and remains missing. [1] Experts believe it may be the most valuable stolen object in the world; [2][3] as of 2015, it ...
178 cm × 205 cm (70 in × 81 in) Location. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted ca. 1560–1562. It is in the permanent collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts. The oil-on-canvas painting measures 178 by 205 centimetres (70 in × 81 in).
Detail. Virgin and Child with an Angel also known as Our Lady of the Eucharist (Italian: Madonna dell'Eucarestia) is a painting in tempera on wood panel by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, executed in c. 1470. It is now held by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, having been acquired from Prince Chigi ...
Museum director. Peggy Fogelman is the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] Fogelman has served in this role since January 2016, after Anne Hawley stepped down after 26 years as director of the museum. [2] Fogelman is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's fifth director.