Operation Night Watch already found a pencil sketch hidden below the painting and showed which type of drying oil Rembrandt used on the painting. Now, in a new research paper published last week ...

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 ...

In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares to march out to defend their city.

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 ...

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.

Particular reverence was reserved for Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch (1642), the altarpiece around which, as the director put it, the entire museum had been built. A flash mob recreated ...

A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic "Night Watch" painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it.

Dibbits recalled watching the previous restoration of the “Night Watch” when he was a child growing up in Amsterdam. “I was 9 and we went as a family several times to watch it,” he said.