during the first phase of Operation Night Watch – which began in 2019 – chemists from Holland's University of Amsterdam (UvA) worked out how Rembrandt managed to embellish the painting with ...

it was designed around ‘The Night Watch’,” says Taco Dibbits, the museum’s director-general. “It embodies the civic society of the Netherlands.” Rembrandt doesn’t paint a formal ...

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, is under way at the ... in the background. The painting’s original name is Militia Company of District II under the Command ...

Dutchman sleeps with The Night Watch Rediscovering Rembrandt ... modern title comes from the painting's varnish, which darkened over the years, dimming the original colour until it looked like ...

As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, ...

An Amsterdam museum has begun the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch and is inviting people to watch live. The masterpiece, created in 1642, has been placed ...

Eight art conservators are painstakingly removing multiple layers of varnish from ... "Operation Night Watch" seeks to remove the varnish and expose the original paint, before a new specialised ...

In Rembrandt ... all that the famous painting was hiding, researchers recently found. When conservators used X-rays to peer below the varnish and paint of “The Night Watch,” they discovered ...

One of the highlights of any visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is seeing the massive masterpiece The Night Watch painted by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn in 1642.

Shielded from the public by glass panels and staring intently through microscopes, a team of specialists has started work restoring Rembrandt's “The Night Watch,” one of the most iconic paintings of ...

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