The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...
Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it “Night Watch,” and the name stuck. Last week Rembrandt’s original subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum’s ...
Art restorers at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum started removing the varnish from Rembrandt's “Night Watch” on Nov. 12, with the ...
Eight restorers are working on the piece in a specially designed glass chamber for the operation's first stage.
The Night Watch was supposed to be a group portrait - a pretty popular form of art in the Dutch Golden Age for well-to-do gentlemen and their various societies. But Rembrandt broke all the rules ...
Eight art conservators have begun a painstaking process to remove a layer of varnish from Rembrandt's giant "Night Watch" ...