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Sources:
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- General
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2003.
- Hendy, Philip. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1974.
- Mashberg, Tom. “Stealing Beauty: The Story Behind Attempted Recoveries of Art Stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.” Vanity Fair [March 1998]. Accessed online.
- van N. Hadley, Rollin, ed. The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1987.
- Vermeer – The Concert
- Hale, Philip. Vermeer. Boston: Hale, Cushman, & Flint, 1937.
- Hotel Drouot. Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens Oeuvres Remarquables de Van Der Meer de Delft. Paris: 1892.
- Moreno, Ignacio. “Vermeer’s The Concert: A Study in Harmony and Contrasts.” The Rutgers Art Review (January 1982): 50-57.
- National Gallery of Art. Johannes Vermeer. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995.
- Schneider, Norbert. Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions. Koln: Taschen, 2000.
- Schutz, Karl. Vermeer: The Complete Works. Koln: Taschen, 2017.
- Flinck – Landscape with the Obelisk
- Dickey, Stephanie, ed. Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New Research. Zwolle: W Books, 2017.
- Mortimer, Kristin. “Report of the Curator.” Fenway Court (1985): 70-75.
- Schneider, Cynthia. “A New Look at the Landscape with an Obelisk.” Fenway Court (1984): 6-21.
- ———. Rembrandt’s Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Sutton, Peter et al, eds. Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1987.
- Manet – Chez Tortoni
- Alexandre, Arséne. Collection Kélékian: Tableaux de L’Ecole Française Moderne. Paris: D. Kélékian, 1920.
- Brombert, Beth Archer. Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Dewey, Stoddard. “The End of Tortoni’s.” The Atlantic (June 1894): 751-762.
- Cachin, Françoise, Charles Moffett, and Juliet Wilson Bareau. Manet, 1832-1883. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
- Néret, Gilles. Édouard Manet: 1832-1883: the first of the moderns. Translated by Chris Miller. Köln: Taschen, 2016.
- Tabarant, Adolphe. Manet et ses oeuvres. Third edition. Paris: Gallimard, 1947.
- Rembrandt – Self-Portrait, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Lady and Gentleman in Black
- Chapman, H. Perry. “Reclaiming the inner Rembrandt: passion and the early self-portraits.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 32 (2010): 232-261.
- ——. Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Howard, James. “Rembrandt van Rijn: The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.” Fenway Court (1970): 33-38.
- ——. “Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee Re-Examined.” Fenway Court (1986): 6-19.
- Niemeijer, J.W. “The Art Collection of John Hope.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 32 (1981): 195.
- Schwartz, Gary. Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings. London: Guild Publishings, 1985.
- Smith, David. “Rembrandt’s Early Double Portraits and the Dutch Conversation Piece.” Art Bulletin 64 (1982): 259-288.
- ——. “Masks of Wedlock: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Marriage Portraiture.” PhD diss. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 1982.
- Walsh, John. “Child’s Play in Rembrandt’s A Lady and Gentleman in Black.” Fenway Court (1976): 1-7.
- White, Christopher and Quentin Buvelot, eds. Rembrandt by himself. London: National Gallery Publications Limited, 1999.
- Degas – 5 Drawings
- Dumas, Ann et. al. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
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- Kendall, Richard. Degas: Beyond Impressionism. London: National Gallery Publications, 1996.
- Kendall, Richard, ed. Degas by Himself: Drawings, Prints, Paintings, Writings. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1987.
- Lloyd, Christopher. Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014.
- Eagle Finial
- Greig, Matilda and Nicole Cochrane, eds. Napoleonic Objects and Their Afterlives: 1821-present. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
- Lefort, Elodie. “The Imperial Eagles of the First and Second Empires.” Napoleon.org
- Palace of Versailles – Serment de l’armée fait à l’empereur après la distribution des Aigles, 5 décembre 1804
- Wise, Terence. Flags of the Napoleonic Wars: Colors, Standards and Guidons of France and her Allies. Volume 1. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1990.
- Ku
- Ang, Marian. “Ancient Chinese Bronzes in Ritual and Society: A Brief Introduction.” Sotheby’s Blog. Published April 1, 2024.
- Li, Xueqin. Chinese Bronzes: A General Introduction. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1995.
- Longstreet, Gilbert Wendel and Morris Carter. General Catalogue. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1935.
- Niu, Gabrielle. “Gardner’s Gu.” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum blog, published on March 3, 2025.
- Parish-Watson, MacDermid and Bernard Laufer. Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang, Chou, and Han Periods in the Collections of Mr. Parish-Watson. New York: Parish-Watson, 1922.
- Music Featured in Episode:
- Kevin MacLeod, Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
- Hooksounds.com – Success Dream
- Kevin MacLeod – Unseen Presence
- Kevin MacLeod – Lone Harvest
- Kevin MacLeod – Virtutes Instrumenti
- Kevin MacLeod – Blue Feather
- Kevin MacLeod – Touching Moments
- Kevin MacLeod – Nervous Piano
- Kevin MacLeod – Shadowlands
- Kevin MacLeod – Ghostpocalypse
- All Kevin MacLeod songs were downloaded from incompetech.com and are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Happy listening!
Lindsay
Stuff about Things 
Dannnng….I think we can say this was literally epic! Thank you for making my drive across Iowa more than bearable :). And in this season of both gratitude and grading papers, I am particularly thankful for how incredibly well you write and present. It was a joy to listen to.
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Thank you, Lisa! I appreciate those kind words. As someone who frequently does 5+ hour drives, I love knowing that I made your drive more bearable. The heist is such a fascinating story, as are the individual works. I look forward to continuing to follow it and update listeners if and when there are more developments.
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Thank you for taking the time to discuss each piece in depth! I could listen all day! You don’t have to worry about long episodes for me! Details are great, and for anyone who thinks you can’t discuss works of art simply by listening to you describe them, is oh -so-wrong! It is my goal in 2026 to finally get to visit the “Elizabeth” Steward Gardner Museum! Keep up the great work!!
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Thank you so much, OkieJules! I really appreciate those kind words. I, too, want to get back to the Gardner Museum (Elizabeth or Isabella, either will do) in 2026 or 2027. I haven’t been to Boston in almost 20 years, which is just a ridiculous. It feels oh so very long ago but also like yesterday. I don’t know what I’m more excited about: to visit the Gardner or to have my first (legal) beer in Boston after having lived there as an 18 year old. Time will tell! Thanks again. -Lindsay
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