The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a 1633 painting by the Dutch master Rembrand van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum prior to being stolen on March 18, 1990.
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[edit] The painting
The painting depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the waves on the Sea of Galilee (now modern Israel), as depicted in fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is Rembrandt's only seascape.
[edit] Theft
On the morning of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as police officers broke into the museum and stole The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and twelve other artworks, including a painting by Vermeer (The Concert) and two other Rembrandts as well as works by Manet, Degas, Govaert Flinck, and a French and a Chinese artifact. It is considered the biggest art theft in US history and remains unsolved. The museum still displays the paintings' empty frames in their original locations due to the strict provisions of Gardner's will, which instructed that the collection be maintained unchanged. The thefts are a subject of a 2005 documentary called Stolen which in a slightly different version had earlier appeared on Court TV.
As of 2008, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is still missing.
