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The Gardner heist : a true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft / Ulrich Boser.

By: Boser, Ulrich.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Collins/Smithsonian Books, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 260 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780061451836 (trade : acidfree paper); 0061451835.Subject(s): Art thefts -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Theft from museums -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Art thefts -- Boston (Mass.) | Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumDDC classification: 364.16/28/7599492
Contents:
The storm on the sea of Galilee : a disturbance in the courtyard -- Chez Tortoni : the art detective -- A lady and gentlemen in black : it was a passion -- The concert : the picture habit -- Cortege aux environs de Florence : the art of the theft -- Landscape with an obelisk : something that big -- Ku : unfinished business -- Three mounted jockeys : infiltrate and infatuate -- Self-portrait : I was the one -- Program for an artistic soiree I : any news on your side -- Program for an artistic soiree II : where's Whitey? -- La sortie de pesage : put my picture on the cover -- Finial : like a spiderweb.
Summary: An account of twentieth century's greatest art heist that occurred in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, when thieves posing as cops entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and left with a dozen masterpieces, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued at 500 million dollars.
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An account of twentieth century's greatest art heist that occurred in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, when thieves posing as cops entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and left with a dozen masterpieces, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued at 500 million dollars.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-[242]) and index.

The storm on the sea of Galilee : a disturbance in the courtyard -- Chez Tortoni : the art detective -- A lady and gentlemen in black : it was a passion -- The concert : the picture habit -- Cortege aux environs de Florence : the art of the theft -- Landscape with an obelisk : something that big -- Ku : unfinished business -- Three mounted jockeys : infiltrate and infatuate -- Self-portrait : I was the one -- Program for an artistic soiree I : any news on your side -- Program for an artistic soiree II : where's Whitey? -- La sortie de pesage : put my picture on the cover -- Finial : like a spiderweb.

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