It’s been 35 years since thieves stole more than a dozen works of art during a 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world.
On March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers robbed the museum of approximately $500 million worth of masterpieces. They included works by Rembrandt, Manet and Vermeer. The FBI said in 2015 that the two suspects are now dead.
The museum rehung the conserved frame that held Rembrandt’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” the artist’s only known seascape – in the museum’s Dutch Room on Tuesday.
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