On March 18, 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston became the target of the highest-value art heist in human history, resulting in the theft of 13 masterpieces valued at $600 million. Hamstrung by the founder's strict 1924 will, which legally froze the gallery arrangements and left the museum financially strained, the institution operated with severely compromised security—including an absence of interior cameras, zero art insurance, and only two underpaid night watchmen. Exploiting these vulnerabilities, two thieves disguised as Boston police officers gained entry, bound the guards in the basement, and spent an unprecedented 81 minutes inside the galleries. They brutally slashed irreplaceable masterpieces, including Vermeer’s The Concert and Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape), di ...