1990: $500m art heist at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; 13 artworks stolen, including Rembrandts and a Vermeer.

1990 marks the world's largest unsolved art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, where 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, were stolen, now estimated to be worth $500 million. Isabella Stewart Gardner, the museum's founder, was a philanthropist and art collector. The heist left the museum's most expensive artwork, "The Rape of Europa" by Titian, untouched.

May 19, 2024
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