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Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part One)

Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part One)

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On March 18, 1990, two thieves stole over a half billion dollars worth of artwork from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Art Museum. Today this remains the world’s largest unsolved art robbery.







Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888





John Lowell (Jack) Gardner, Jr.





Bernard Berenson in his Italian Villa





Botticelli, The tragedy of Lucretia





Rembrandt, Storm on the Sea of Galilee





Rembrandt, self portrait, damaged but not stolen





Titian, Rape of Europa





Jan Vermeer, The Concert





Manet, Chez Tortoni





Rembrandt, A Man and a Woman in Black





Flinck, Landscape with Obelisk





John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888





Gardner Museum, Central Courtyard
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Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part One)

Isabella Stewart Gardner and the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Robbery. Volume Six, Episode Twelve (Part One)

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