Big Art robberies

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, and a collection of over 2,500 works of art in Europe, Asia and America, including paintings, sculptures and tapestries.

Isabella Gardner began collecting art after receiving a large inheritance from his father in 1891. His first big purchase was Vermeer's The Concert "at an auction in Paris in 1892.

Early one morning, March 18, 1990, entered the museum thieves disguised as policemen.He was handcuffed two security guards and stole 13 works of art worth more than $ 500,000,000, including "The Concert" and other major works by Rembrandt, Degas and Manet.

Today, there is still the greatest theft of property and art in general, and remains unresolved. The museum exhibits white photos of paintings in their original positions under the provisions of Gardner's will, which means that the gathering was addressed unchanged.

There is still a special award of $ 5,000,000 for eachInformation necessary to return the goods unless it is in good condition.

However, fortunately, although other thefts have happened at this time, the most important works were returned.

In 1911, workers in the Louvre in Paris, the Museum Italian left with "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci, hidden under his jacket. His motive was wrong, which was one of the people in Italy

I have kept in his apartment for two years before trying to interest amuseum in Italy.

It 'been arrested, but because the Italian people regarded as a hero, was only a few months in prison, and "La Gioconda" has been safely restored at the Louvre in 1913.

The day of the Winter Olympic Games opened in Norway, four men broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole "The Scream", a well-known works of Edvard Munch. The brazen culprits left a note: "Thanks for the lack of security."

However, they recovered only a few endMonths later, in good condition thanks to the work of the British police.

The strange art theft in history, we must recognize an English bus driver retired, who rejoiced in the name of Kempton Bunton.

He had heard that a wealthy American collector wanted to buy a painting titled "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. The British Government had intervened and are consistent with the offer (Euro 140,000) to ensure the painting remained in the United Kingdom .

This anger Bunton, The struggle to pay their TV licenses outside of their very low income.

On the morning of August 21, 1961, Bunton expressed through a bathroom window of the National Gallery, noted that a valuable part of the wall, and escaped through the same windows.

Bunton demanded a ransom for the same amount, said he used to buy TV licenses for the poor.

Four years after the painting Bunton returned voluntarily. He was jailed for three monthsAfter the success of the defense argued that was not only the frame was stolen and the same painting