The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tap
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Gardner Museum in 2012, original building at right
The Rape of Europa (1562) by Titian is one of the most famous works in the museum
Glass skylights illuminate the central atrium of the original building
The Concert (Vermeer)
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The Concert is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer depicting a man and two women performing music. It was stolen on March 18, 1990, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and r
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
…public in 1903. Gardner began collecting seriously after she received a large inheritance from her father in 1891. Her purchase of Johannes Vermeer's The Concert (c. 1664) at auction in Paris in 1892 was her first major acquisition. In 1894, Bernard Berenson offered his services in helping her acquire a Botticelli…
Vermeer The concert