Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Summary

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In the passage," Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 years of theories", the police and FBI agents discovered that a special piece of artwork was stolen, Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The stolen work of art was worth $500 million dollars, making it known as the largest art theft in American History. Later on, it tells us about our main protagonist, a reporter for the Boston Herald. He tells us about some paint chips he received in1997 from people who were in charge of to control the art. He gave them to the authorities to identify them and to analyze them. The results came back saying that they were an exact match to a pigment known as "red lake" that was mainly used in the 17th century by the Dutch master and had been

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