Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum publically showcases Mrs. Gardner's collection in the greater Boston area. Each room functions as a chapter of a pilgrimage. When one travels through various countries and time periods, one inevitably ends up in a gallery built in the imitation of a chapel, and subsequently the Gothic room. In this paper, I will examine the Gothic room's theme in relation to the placement of its objects. I will also evaluate the room's strengths and challenges in serving the public

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s art collection blends history and culture to aesthetically define a single individual: Isabella Stewart Gardner. From the “Mosaic Floor: Medusa” of the inner courtyard, to “The Coronation of Hebe” (Paolo Veronese) on the ceiling of the third-floor Veronese Room, Gardner determined every inch of both the interior and exterior of the structure housing her personal collection of masterpieces. This museum was specifically designed to resemble a 15th-century Venetian

The mystery behind the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist can be summed up in two theories Myles Connor and William Youngworth stole and hid the paintings and James “Whitney” Bulger the biggest mob boss in Boston hired someone from his crew to go through with the plan. To begin with, It's been 25 years later, and no one knows where the missing artwork is where it's gon or who has it. On March 18th, 1990, two criminals walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum both dressed in Policemen

Heart Grow Fonder: The Effects of the 1990 Gardner Art Theft Upon entering the room, visitors’ eyes dart to that mysteriously empty frame centered on the opposite wall. In such a painstakingly designed museum, this frame looks out of place. On these walls hang the memoirs of revered artists, but the empty frames scattered throughout remember something more tragic: the largest property theft in world history (Menconi, 2012). Head of security at the Gardner, Anthony Amore, refers to these empty frames

No matter what floor of the museum I am on or what piece of artwork I am looking at, I always return to the center of the heart of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum- the interior courtyard. The courtyard was opened in 1903. It contains artwork, is a piece of artwork itself, and is a sanctuary in the bustling city. From the first time I visited the Gardner Museum when I was eight years old, I was captivated by the immense sense of peacefulness and pure delight that overcame me when the courtyard

A painting captures a single moment. Most of the time, the audience does not see what happens before and after the moment of the piece, but Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his depiction of Mark 4:35:39, a story that most children learn in Sunday School. Mark 4:35-36 tells the moments before the storm: “On that day, when evening had come, He told them, ‘Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.’ So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the

The Charles H. MacNider Art Museum has grown substantially in size, but still retains the original feel of the Keeler home. There have been four major renovations to the MacNider Art Museum. The first renovation took place in 1964 before the museum opened to the public. The 1964 renovation focused on changing the Keeler home into a fully functioning art museum. The renovations made possible by trustee and staff members who raised $40,000. This money went to creating exhibit and program space, along

He was still in contact with Isabella Stewart Gardner, and helped to advise her as to which works of art to secure for her own collection, which has now become a renowned gallery in Boston. Traditional to the end, Sargent persisted in his methods of representation, unabashedly receiving criticism

find a way to prevent them from doing so anymore. As of March 1990 a pair of two thieves disguised as Boston Police officers stole a painting known as "The Storm of Gailee" has been stolen by these thieves in Brooklyn, New York's museum "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum". The local FBI authorities are on the case currently trying to figure out who stole the painting. As the FBI have been searching for who stole the paintings and reporters looking deeper into this investigation a statement; believing

cases. Many challenges faced in the first passage "Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories" came to a dead end. A stolen artifact, a painting, "Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee" was on of the most sought-after stolen masterpieces in the world. Making the robbery the largest art theft in American history, mostly because 13 paintings were stolen. They were stolen in March 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, they haven't caught the thieves. It remains a cold