On March 18 1990 the museum fell prey to history’s biggest art heist.
Here are five things that make the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and its famous theft, so interesting.
Sean Dungan/Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonWhy commit history’s greatest art heist and leave without the priciest piece in the museum?
John Wilcox/Boston Herald/Getty ImagesWhy would “Corsican mobsters,” as CNN correspondent Randi Kaye described them in the programme, be interested in robbing a Boston art museum?
“That’s how these things get stolen.”How It Really Happened’s “Gardner Art Heist: Stealing Beauty” premieres on CNN Sunday 19 May, at 9pm ET/PT.
Persons:
”, Andy Warhol’s, Frida Kahlo’s, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Vermeer, Rick Abath, Gardner, ” Stephan Kurkjian, ” Gardner, Julia Ward Howe, Ethel Smyth, Emmeline Pankhurst, Smyth, John Singer Sargent, Gardener, Mona Lisa, Titian, theives, Sean Dungan, Napoleon, Rembrandt, Bob Wittman, John Wilcox, Randi Kaye, ” Kaye, ” Kelly Horan, Myles Connor, —, theif Myles Connor, George Rizer, Connor, Al Dotoli, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, Dotoli, Dionne Warwick —, ” Horan, “, Ryan McBride, ” Wittman, “ Gardner
Organizations:
CNN, The Museum, Modern Art, Salvador, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 9P, Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Red Sox, Boston Globe, Storm, FBI, Museum of Modern, Art, Boston Herald, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Getty
Locations:
New York, Boston, America, Red, Europa, London, Galilee, Corsica, Nice, Corsican, Maine