Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet. Thirteen priceless works of art taken in a bold, 81-minute heist 30 years ago, now represented by empty frames on the Boston museum's walls. The reward for helping solve the crime stands at $10 million. (WBUR)
The empty frame of Vermeer's"The Concert" in the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
A woman sits to the man's left, hands poised over the keys of a harpsichord. To the right another stands on the verge of breaking out into song. The 356-year-old Vermeer painting is one of about 34 known works by him. Now retired, Hawley hopes she lives long enough to see it again — along with the 12 other stolen pieces — including paintings by Rembrandt, Flinck and Manet.
Amore doesn't want to sound like a forlorn investigator, but admitted, “it's a difficult thing to imagine that it would take this long to find them.”At the same time, the barren frames also represent hope for Amore. He's determined to return the missing artworks to their rightful home. A perennial challenge for him and the museum, though, is keeping them in the public eye.
“You know, it speaks to me,” he said, “you have to have this faith. And then you have Rembrandt as the 13th apostle looking directly at you. It was one of the most popular paintings in the city when it was here.” Baer was a longtime senior curator of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, just down the road from the Gardner. Now she's the distinguished curator and lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum. She said “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” illustrates Rembrandt's skill as a storyteller who captured the wealth of human emotion we see in each disciple's response to the crisis.
“Both of these artists are such masters of paint handling,” Baer said, “Rembrandt is a masculine show-off, Vermeer is quiet and poetic.” Their brushwork brings the art to life in both the “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” and “The Concert.”
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