Abath, for his part, has long denied any role in the heist, and authorities have generally cleared him as a person of interest, reported Tom Mashberg for the New York Times in The grainy footage shows Abath, who was on guard during the day of March 17, opening the same side doors used by the thieves and admitting an unidentified man in a waist-length coat and an upturned collar, as the Times reported. As the Guardian reports, dozens of theories ranging from conspiratorial to credible have cropped up over the years.
Most people, including the FBI, argue that the works traveled through organized crime networks in Boston: namely, the mob. The narrative centers on Bobby Donati , a mobster who may have organized the theft with fellow criminal Robert Bobby Guarente in order to use the art as a bargaining chip to get their friend Vincent Ferrara out of jail, per Lauren Kranc of Esquire.
Both Donati and Guarente are now dead. Another former mobster, Robert Gentile , has long maintained his innocence despite a bevy of evidence pointing to his involvement in the crime. The octogenarian was released from prison in after serving 54 months on an unrelated charge. He remains the only living person who likely has firsthand knowledge of the heist.
The series briefly considers several wilder suggestions, including the theory that members of the Irish Republic Army IRA were involved in the crime, notes Esquire.
The directors also interviewed Myles Connor Jr. Connor provides essential context about how the underground art market operated during the s.
Against the distant horizon, a kind of butte towers over the fields and woods in front of it. The colors are mostly browns the landscape and grays the sky. Bernard Berenson, the famous art historian and adviser to Mrs. Fanciful and realistic, the subject remains a mystery. The obelisk seems to represent something, to want to represent something.
But we have no choice but to leave its meaning to our imagination. At least one of his eyes is focused on us, the viewers. A wine glass is on the table. The wine is transparent. The brush strokes are broad, and tactile. This small canvas slightly more than by inches used to hang in the crowded little Blue Room on the first floor of the Gardner.
Manet, who was only 51 when he died, was in his 40s when he painted "Chez Tortoni" — in his full maturity. They were stored with other prints and drawings in cabinets designed by Mrs. Gardner herself. Although he began as a painter of Biblical and historical scenes, Degas, like Manet who was two years his senior , became famous for his depictions of ordinary life — most notably images of dancers, jockeys, and racing horses.
The loss of three drawings of scenes with horses is a significant one. The image is a small procession that shows Degas in a more historical mode. One of the small but most arresting figures is a woman holding a large umbrella high above three women who seem to be dancing. Fascinating changes of position are evident from the still visible pencil drawing.
A square in the lower right-hand corner is left blank, presumably the space for information about the soiree. These pages are both charming and puzzling. What kind of fun soiree would such disparate images suggest? The Oxford Dictionary defines a finial as an ornament at the top, end or corner of an object. The eagle stands proud, with its wings spread, almost glaring. Although they tried, the thieves were unable to remove the entire flag, which was in a case screwed to the wall of the Short Gallery, so they finally settled for the finial.
The entire object hung in Mrs. The finial is gone, but the flag is still there. According to the Gardner Museum website, this inch tall ancient Shang dynasty bronze beaker was one of the oldest objects in the entire collection, and by far the oldest of the stolen objects. And while long and repetitive, failing to identify the thieves or find any of the art, it does remind viewers why the case is still unsolved.
Police knew that the mob had its eyes on the Gardner Museum in the early s. Abath was the one who buzzed in the thieves, and he failed to press a button to alert police before he was bound and blindfolded. Cops botched gathering of evidence in , slowing the investigation and even the FBI was inert at first.
The initial suspects were Abath, who was never charged, and the veteran art thief and rock musician Myles Connor, a local hero in prison when the heist occurred. Amid talk in the Netflix programme that the paintings were in Saudi Arabia, police and other law enforcement agents warned that selling the stolen works was near-impossible.
So far that has happened in one rare case, with nothing recovered in the end, but a cash reward still makes Rembrandt tips at least as common as Elvis sightings. And so the Netflix series becomes not a story about art, but of criminals, always a colorful lot in Boston.
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