Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American art museum.

History

The American art collector and patron Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was in the period from 1896 to 1903 the museum named after her from the ground to build new in the historical style of a Venetian palazzo influenced Renaissance and wore on their travels, supported by their advisor Bernard Berenson, who was then renowned scholar of Italian Renaissance, and on the International art trade a considerable collection together. The museum now has more than 2,500 exhibits of European, Asian and American art.

Extension

Due to the continuously growing over the decades visitor numbers, the museum will be expanded in 2010 to a design by Renzo Piano for a new wing. The cultivation was opened in February 2012.

Art theft in 1990

International attention to the art theft of 18 March 1990 is not cleared up by the FBI and on the list of top ten art crimes is out. Two men disguised as police officers broke into the building and stole 13 paintings, including the concert of Jan Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn's three paintings. The paintings could be found yet again. As an expression of the founder's will of the founder, after which no art can be removed from the museum or changed in the hanging, the empty frames still hang on the spot.

Rembrandt's only seascape

Rembrandt "Landscape with Obelisk "