When conservators used X-rays to analyze Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” they discovered something unexpected under its surface: lead.

Rembrandt may have read this manuscript, and used that as inspiration for his canvas treatment. Like the other studies to come out of Operation Night Watch, this discovery brings Rembrandt’s ...

The “Chasing Rembrandt” exhibit at the Wadsworth is a self-examination of the museum’s quest to own a Rembrandt, including the times it thought it did own some. Photo by Christopher Arnott.

The oval-shaped oil portraits, signed and dated by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1635, depict a wealthy elderly couple in Leiden, Netherlands. The two were linked to the painter through their son, who had ...

Rembrandt-painted portraits of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife, Jaapgen, are once again visible to the public after nearly 200 years in a private collection.

Rembrandt van Rijn completed The Night Watch, a group portrait of Amsterdam's local militia, in 1642. Rijksmuseum The characteristic golden hue in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch stems from an ...

Last week, the Rembrandt House Museum reopened in Amsterdam after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt van Rijn in the building where the artist lived and worked—plus a ...

Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669.

Between 1995 and 2000, viewers went along for a ride across the multiverse in Sliders (streaming now on Peacock). The story begins in the home of Quinn Mallory (Jerry O’Connell), a graduate ...

The characteristic golden hue in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch stems from an unlikely source. New research published in the journal Heritage Science suggests the 17th-century Dutch painter used ...