The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist remains the largest private property theft in American history — and its last surviving link has just slipped through the authorities' fingers. David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images An empty frame where Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee , circa 1633, once was. On March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as policemen broke into a Boston art museum, tied up a guard, and stole 13 paintings right off the walls. The infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist has since been hailed one of the most devastating thefts of private property in art history. Decades later, $500 million worth of masterpieces — Rembrandts, Vermeers, and sketches by Degas — are still missing. In the aftermath of the heist, authorities considered a complex web of suspects, but the investigation ultimately failed to pin the crime on anyone in particular. Now, the last alleged and surviving link to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, the no...
Comments
Post a Comment