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History. 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.
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- The thieves likely succeeded due to canny planning, luck and lax security. Wealthy American art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner constructed her namesake museum out of her private, Venetian palazzo–inspired home in the hope that it would provide “for the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”
- The perpetrators stole masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt. but left the most expensive painting in the building untouched. The thieves made a beeline for some of the museum’s greatest treasures, including Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, the only known seascape painted by Rembrandt; A Lady and Gentleman in Black, also by Rembrandt; and Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert, one of just dozens of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings to survive today.
- The FBI has named suspects in the crime, but the works remain missing. In 2013, the FBI announced that it had identified the two thieves with a “high degree of confidence.”
- Theories big and small abound, but certain answers are hard to come by. As the Guardian reports, dozens of theories ranging from conspiratorial to credible have cropped up over the years.
The museum was the capstone of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s decades of collecting art from her travels with her husband, John (“Jack”) Gardner. The two toured extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East , and Asia, amassing a collection of more than 2,500 objects spanning from antiquity to the 1920s.
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- 'The Concert' Johannes Vermeer. 1663-1666. This small painting, slightly more than two-feet square, was displayed back-to-back with Govaert Flinck’s “Landscape with Obelisk” on a small tabletop in the Gardner Museum’s magnificent Dutch Room.
- 'A Lady And Gentleman In Black' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. All of the Rembrandts in Mrs. Gardner’s collection were produced by the early 1630s, when Rembrandt was only 26 or 27 years old (though his sensitive self-portrait — which wasn’t stolen — dates from four years earlier).
- 'Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. Four artworks to the right of the stolen "Lady And Gentleman In Black" in the Dutch Room hangs the empty frame of the most famous of the missing paintings, “Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee,” an illustration of an even more famous passage in the New Testament (Matthew, 8)
- 'Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man' Rembrandt van Rijn. 1633. This tiny etching, just 1 inch and ¾ wide by nearly 2 inches high, is one of those Rembrandt marvels.
Apr 21, 2021 · Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum houses an important art collection: it is most famous for being the victim of the biggest art heist in history.
- Sarah Roller
Over the next 20 years, Isabella Stewart Gardner filled her museum with visual and performing artists; she organized concerts, lectures, and exhibitions, and encouraged artists to make themselves home in the museum.
Apr 22, 2021 · fullscreen. On March 18, 1990, a brazen art heist stripped Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of 13 of its master works of art, kicking off a winding investigation that would rope in...
