Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

(ALR 1) In March 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum located in Boston, Massachusetts and successfully stole five hundred million dollars worth of art. Among the thirteen priceless works stolen were Rembrandt’s The Sea of Galilee and Vermeer’s The Concert, which was one of only thirty-five of the artist’s surviving works. The Gardner museum offered a reward of five million dollars. However, as the years passed, not a single…

December 22, 2000, the criminals who robbed the Stockholm’s National Museum in Sweden had known exactly what they were after in their well-planned theft. A machine gun will get you the haul, a bomb will distract the police, and cars with flat tires cannot respond to an alarm. Their distraction tactics were magnificent. Three men entered the museum on Stockholm’s waterfront at about 5:15 p.m. While the men were inside the museum, accomplices set off two car bombs nearby on the opposite ends of…

Jasmine Webb Music 1010 Critique 2 February 8, 2016 So for my second critique I was able to go to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and pick a performance that i would find interesting to listen to and focus on that. So the one I have chosen to do was called “Oldies, But Goodies” and the performers that are performing in this piece are going to be, the Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute and they are going to perform “Work for string quartet by Boccherini’, and the next performer is…

religious subjects and utilizing a combination of the old with their own new personal techniques. In the following paper I am going to compare and contrast Antoniazzo Romano’s Virgin and Child with a Donor (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1480 and the Master of the Straus Madonna’s Virgin and Child (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) of c. 1395-1400. These two painting are more than 80 years apart but have some characteristics in common that relate to the Byzantine art style. Both paintings are…

In the article “Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) : Paintings”, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walter Liedtke describes the many sources of inspiration for the artist: artwork from abroad, local masters, biblical passages, the people of Amsterdam, and effluence. Rembrandt improved upon his techniques by studying art pieces that came…