The world’s biggest art heist took place 35 years ago when 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner ...
The Night Watch—Rembrandt’s most famous painting, according to the museum—is 12 feet tall and more than 14 feet long. It depicts a group of civic guardsmen , Amsterdam’s 17th-century local ...
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