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The biggest art heist that took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 remains unsolved over three decades later
The biggest art heist that took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 remains unsolved over three decades later
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In the 1600s, a Dutch artist, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, simply known as Rembrandt, created works of art so prolific that 300 years later, art thieves would heist three of his masterpieces. Today marks 34 years since these works were looted from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, on 18 March 1990.

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