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Making of the Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner as Collector, Architect, and Designer: April 23 – August 24, 2003 Raphael, Cellini and a Renaissance Banker: The Patronage of Bindo Altoviti: October 8, 2003 – January 11, 2004 Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle: April 21 – August 15, 2004
The stolen works were originally procured by art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) and were intended for permanent display at the museum with the rest of her collection. Among them was The Concert , one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting in the world.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Main article: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a painting of 1633 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen on March ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice (1894), by Anders Zorn (Gardner Museum). In 1874, Isabella and Jack Gardner visited the Middle East, Central Europe, and Paris. Beginning in the late 1880s, they frequently traveled across America, Europe, and Asia to discover foreign cultures and expand their knowledge of art around the world.
It was acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in an 1892 auction in Paris for $5,000 [6] and subsequently displayed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the night of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as policemen stole 13 works from the museum, including The Concert. To this day the painting has not resurfaced; it is thought to be the most ...
John Lowell Gardner Jr. (November 26, 1837 – December 10, 1898) was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. He and his wife, Isabella Stewart Gardner , were patrons of the arts whose collection is now housed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum .
Museum of Fine Arts is a surface-level light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line E branch, located the median of Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, between Museum Road and Ruggles Street. The station is named after the adjacent Museum of Fine Arts , although it also provides access to Northeastern University , Wentworth Institute of ...
Anne Hawley (born November 3, 1943) was the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston from 1989 until 2015. Founded in 1903 and one of Boston's most important cultural institutions, the museum is a highly unique installation of Gardner’s private collection, considered to be a work of art in totality.