Hello people, long ago I don’t post! So, how are doing? Everything is fine? I hope so :)
Well, do you want to know about the largest art heist in HISTORY? Sounds cool right? But the thing is that, as we saw in other art heists, it was pretty easy. Ok, now, let me tell you a little about the museum, so that you can understand some things that will come later with the story of the heist. When Gardner’s husband, a magnate, died in 1898, he left his wife Gardner like 3 million dollars, with which Gardner started constructing in her house (or that’s what it looks like). And some years later, when Gardner died, she asked for her house to remain as a museum, and the paintings stayed as she had already hung them. So, basically, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an antique house, that’s why it is more reasonable to understand that they may not have the huge necessary security, and so the thieves could stole the paintings in an easy way.
So, back to the heist story, it was kind of like this: there were some guards, inexperienced guards, (apparently, according to what CBS News says), obviously, doing their guard. When two other mans came to them, they were dressed with the guard’s uniforms, and they tell the two naïve guards that they were investigating something, a disturbance issue, and then out of the blue they tied up the guards and wandered in the museum like about 80 minutes or so. The thieves took 13 artworks during that time and then leave. They were taking the paintings from their frames with something like a cutter, maybe because they didn’t wanted to ruin the painting or something, like it they already knew how to do the stuff, looks like they were already paid and explained by someone. Among the paintings they stole, there were two from Rembrandt, taking his only seascape painting "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee," “The Concert” from Verneer, some drawings by Degas, Manet, and a Chinese bronze beaker. This all counts like over 200 million dollars. |
It looks like they knew what they were doing, where they were heading to, which works they were looking for. And that most be because someone else helped them with the plan, and maybe he/she paid them with money for the “fake guards” to steal the stuff.
The paintings haven’t being found until nowadays, considering that the theft was on March, 18, 1990, it’d being like 21 years without finding them. And what’s worse is that maybe they are in some rich person’s house as an exhibition or someone’s basement.
So, what do you think? I hope you found it interesting, I would like to keep talking about it, but I’m out of time, sorry :( Post you next week! :D
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Stephany Gómez Oropeza
BIBLIOGRAPHY.-
Gardner Mystery Lingers 20 Years On. CBS News. CBS EVENING News. 8 de March de 2010. <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/06/eveningnews/main6273666.shtml>.
