Title of Artwork: “The Storm on the Sea”
Artwork by Rembrandt
Year Created 1633
Summary of The Storm on the Sea
Rembrandt’s sole seascape is the dramatic The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The picture shows Jesus stilling the sea so that the fourteen sailors on board the ship might return to shore safely.
The painting was taken on March 18, 1990, by individuals posing as police officers. This picture was one of thirteen stolen during a break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
These paintings were stolen in what is now known as the largest art heist in history, and they were never found. All that has changed is that the paintings themselves have been removed, but the frames remain on the walls.
Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1990.
Christian believers can look to Mark 4:35 in their Bibles to see the story of Jesus stilling the storm on the Sea of Galilee. One seascape, and just this seascape, was painted by Rembrandt.
Thieves posing as police officers stormed into the museum early on March 18, 1990, and made off with The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and 11 other paintings.
The museum continues to show the empty frames where the paintings once were, despite the fact that the heist has been called the largest art theft in US history and has never been solved.
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