Why Investigate Art Crimes?
So why is it important to recover stolen art? With all of the crime in the world, rape, murder, genocide, kidnapping, why is there merit in focusing on the recovery of stolen art and artifacts? Wittman has a passion for art and explains that the art thief steals culture and history from us all. A stolen Vermeer is a hole in art history that can never be replaced. Additionally, art thefts are perpetrated by gangsters and professional criminals who probably also have a hand in drug dealing, other major thefts and various criminal activities. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; The Big Heist in Boston Which leads, of course, to the most famous art theft in recent history, the armed robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts in 1990. The stolen paintings include a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, several sketches by Edgar Degas and a Manet. Though Wittman initiated Operation Masterpiec
