Federal investigators came to believe during the past decade that the key to the world’s biggest art heist the still-unsolved 1990 theft of $500 million in paintings and other works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum might be found just outside Hartford. The feds thought the paintings might have been in or under the home of an old, convicted gangster, Robert “The Cook” Gentile, in Manchester where they dug up his yard and tore out walls looking for two Rembrandts and other treasures created by the likes of Vermeer, Degas and Manet.Gentile denies any involvement and the paintings have never been found, despite the museum’s $10 million reward offer that still stands. But the enduring mystery has found its way onto TV screens in a popular new, four-part Netflix documentary series called “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist.” Most of the action plays out in Boston, naturally, but the final Netflix installment dwells heavily on Connecticut and Gen
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This story contains some spoilers for Netflix s This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist.
Avid TV binge-watchers (and art history fanatics) know there’s a new true-crime docuseries in town.
Netflix’s This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist, which launched on the streaming platform on April 7, is about, well, the world’s biggest art heist. In 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers broke into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, making off with millions of dollars worth of art, including Rembrandt’s only known seascape and one of the few dozen Vermeer paintings in the world. The works remain missing today, with very few leads on who did it and where the art might be.