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Isabella Stewart Gardner |
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Willard T Sears |
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| 1900/00/00 |
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| 1903/00/00 |
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Charles Norton, the first professor of art history at Harvard University, sells his Venetian manuscript collection en bloc to Isabella Gardner. Dating from C15 to C18, most of the museums manuscripts are illuminated and survive in original bindings. |
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| 1903/01/00 |
John Singer Sargent |
Painter |
Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. |
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| 1903/01/00 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Benefactor |
Isabella Gardner invites J S Sargent to paint at Fenway Court. Sargent will create several portraits in its elaborate Gothic Room. |
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| 1903/02/00 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Decorator |
Fenway Court opens to the public. The Gothic Room, which was not open, is dominated by Sargent's 1888 portrait of Gardner. The room was richly decorated according to her unique sensibilities with paintings, furniture, fabrics and architectural elements. |
Isabella Stewart Gardner |
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| 1990/03/18 |
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Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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Govert Flinck's "Landscape with Obelisk" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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Vermeer's "The Concert" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
The Concert |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edgar Degas |
Artist |
Degas' "Cortege aux Environs de Florence" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Jean-Frederic Bazille |
Artist |
Degas's "Program for an artistic soiree 2" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
Artist |
Rembrandt's Self-Portrait is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
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A bronze eagle finial for a for a Napoleonic flagstaff and a Chinese Beaker or Ku are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
James Ensor |
Artist |
Degas's Program for an artistic soiree 1 is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edgar Degas |
Artist |
Degas's drawing "La Sortie de Pesage" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
Artist |
Rembrandt's "A Lady and Gentleman in Black" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Bernardo Martorell |
Artist |
Degas's "Three Mounted Jockeys" is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
| 1990/03/18 |
Edouard Manet |
Artist |
Chez Tortoni by Edouard Manet (c 1878-1880) is stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft |
