On Tuesday, a team of eight restorers started removing the varnish from the painting following years of high-tech research.

The painting’s original name is Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq - but it ...

Visitors eager to catch a glimpse of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” at the Rijksmuseum in ... work of cultural institutions — and how art history is so often a collaboration between artists ...

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 ...

Removing the varnish will reveal The Night Watch‘s eventful history,” Taco Dibbits ... semi-amorphous pararealgar pigments in ...

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 ...

Rembrandt's The Night Watch, one of the world's most famous paintings, is on the way to being seen in all its glory again after five years of painstaking restoration. On Tuesday (12November2024) a ...

Art restorers at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum started removing the varnish from Rembrandt's “Night Watch” on Nov. 12, with the ...

Eight art conservators have begun a painstaking process to remove a layer of varnish from Rembrandt's giant "Night Watch" ...