Art theft is an illicit, multi-billion-dollar industry each year, and the world’s most significant heists share one thing in common: the priceless works of Rembrandt. The great Dutch Master’s paintings are renowned for their value by everyone from novice art enthusiasts to museum curators. Hollywood often portrays the theft of such valuable art as the work of dashing, likeable thieves hired by evil, reclusive geniuses. Yet, the reality is quite different—and infinitely more interesting.
Anthony Amore is Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover thirteen works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990. He has written multiple bestselling books and is the author of The Rembrandt Heist, forthcoming from Pegasus Books in November 2025. In this talk, Amore will take us behind the scenes of one of the most notorious heists in history, revealing the untold story of art theft, from conception of the crime to recovery of a masterpiece.
Admission is free and open to the public. Also streamed live – register now: https://rebrand.ly/rembrandts
Sponsored by the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities and the Art History Program at Clark University
