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Known as the most significant art theft in history, the 1990 art heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still haunts historians. Now some 30 years …

A Netflix four-part documentary is shining a light on the unsolved infamous half a billion dollar heist of artwork from a Boston museum. This is a Robbery recounts the story of the world's biggest art theft, which saw 13 paintings, estimated to be worth $500million, taken from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on 18 March 1990. Two thieves disguised as Boston police officers talked their way into the museum at 1:20am, handcuffed and blindfolded security with duct tape before snatching Storm on the Sea of Galilee - Rembrandt’s only seascape - and The Concert, by Johannes Verm...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story of Separating fact from fiction in Netflix's latest true crime thriller By Laura Martin 07/04/2021 The perfect heist is the subject of many a great movie, but one of the biggest thefts in the art world took place for real more than 30 years ago. Unlike Hollywood’s versions, which tend to wrap up with a neat how-and-why explainer (thanks, Danny Ocean), this one remains a whodunnit, with the priceless haul still AWOL. The gripping story behind the heist is the subject of a new N...