The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...

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 ...

Following five years of research using techniques such as digital imaging and artificial intelligence, eight restorers will ...

Of all great painters, one of the supposedly most productive was Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn (1606-1669). In the galleries of the world, 800 paintings of knights, beggars, saints, painters ...

A checkered floor gives way to a threshold on which rests a pair of slippers; in the room beyond, cleverly, a Dutch painting of an interior hangs, artwork-within-artwork. Rembrandt’s 1665 ...

What is thought to be a 16th Century painting of a nativity scene has been found underneath another artwork. Northumbria University conservators were working on a centuries-old panel by an unknown ...

In the extensive publications about John James Audubon (Fig. 1), the artist-naturalist who was America’s first great watercolorist, his art has not received the same attention as his dramatic life ...

And both the art market and the profession of art dealer emerged. Exceptional artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer and Frans Hals created masterpieces that still inspire us today.

art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the ...

From "Poppy Flowers" by Vincent Van Gogh to Rembrandt's missing ... In 1969, thieves stole the "Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence," an early Baroque painting by Italian artist Caravaggio ...