The second phase of the Rijksmuseum's Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece – The Night Watch – is in motion.

Credit: Rijksmuseum/Henk Wildschut/Cover Images 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 ...

One of the central characters in Rembrandt’s large painting “The Night Watch” has detailed gold stitching on his outfit. The figure depicts lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, and he is one ...

Since Operation Night Watch began in 2019, the Rijksmuseum’s team of world-class science researchers has been busy uncovering all there is to know about the vast 17th-century painting.

The second phase of the Rijksmuseum ’s Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt ’s 1642 masterpiece— The Night Watch —is in motion. On Tuesday, ...

Details of “The Night Watch” showing Amsterdam’s coat of arms. Photo: courtesy Rijksmuseum. When the painting was commissioned in late 1640, Dutch freedom from Spain was close at hand.

Rembrandt’s 12.5- by 15-foot painting is being restored as part of Operation Night Watch, the Rijksmuseum’s ongoing study of the 17th-century Dutch masterpiece.

To celebrate the Rijksmuseum's re-opening on April 13 (after 10 years of remodeling), the flashmob recreated Rembrandt's famous The Night Watch painting, created 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 ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rembrandt van Rijn’s iconic painting “The Night Watch” will be restretched to get rid of deformations in its top left corner, the Netherlands’ national museum announced ...