Another intriguing entry into Netflix's true-crime library, the docuseries This Is a Robbery takes a deep dive into one of the most baffling art heists in history. In 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 pieces of art worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 30 years later, we have leads about the robbers, but we don't know very much about the art's whereabouts. Suffice to say, the stolen works have not been returned.
The missing pieces include some of the most valuable works in art history: Govaert Flinck's "Landscape with Obelisk," Rembrandt van Rijn's "Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee," Édouard Manet's "Chez Tortoni," and Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert." Oddly, the robbers left behind expensive Titian and Michaelangelo works while going for more obscure and less valuable pieces such as a Shang dynasty vase and bronze-plated eagle.
The missing pieces include some of the most valuable works in art history: Govaert Flinck's "Landscape with Obelisk," Rembrandt van Rijn's "Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee," Édouard Manet's "Chez Tortoni," and Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert." Oddly, the robbers left behind expensive Titian and Michaelangelo works while going for more obscure and less valuable pieces such as a Shang dynasty vase and bronze-plated eagle.
- 4/7/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
If you’re anything like me, you speed-raced through the four parts of Netflix‘s This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist docu-series, aware that the creators behind the documentary were almost certainly not going to break this 30-year-old cold case wide open, but also desperate to see what conclusions would be drawn. As much as this is a documentary about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, it also quickly becomes a story about organized crime in Boston and New England circa 1990, and the methods with which the FBI investigates. Because of this, the final part of This Is A Robbery focuses on the Boston Mafia and the FBI.
Who stole the paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
While This Is A Robbery is careful not to make any declarations about who actually pulled the heist, the docu-series does seem to come to the broad conclusion that...
Who stole the paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
While This Is A Robbery is careful not to make any declarations about who actually pulled the heist, the docu-series does seem to come to the broad conclusion that...
- 4/7/2021
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
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