New results from the Rijksmuseum’s ongoing research into Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” suggest that he treated his canvas with a lead-based substance before painting the ground layer.

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, is under way at the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam. Following five years of research using techniques such as digital imaging and ...

AMSTERDAM — One of Rembrandt van Rijn's biggest paintings just got a bit bigger. A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic ...

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Visitors eager to catch a glimpse of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam may be surprised to find the large oil painting looking more like a work in progress than a ...

After five years of intensive scientific analysis, The Night Watch by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is finally ready to undergo a landmark restoration. The multi-year Operation Night Watch ...

Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece "The Night Watch" has been closely examined by researchers, who ... More discovered how Rembrandt used pigments to create a gold effect. One of the central characters ...

In the end, the robbers escaped with 13 artworks, including paintings by Rembrandt and Manet that ... journalists and documentarians for decades. Night watchman Rick Abath as he was found the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I sometimes feel like a monkey in a zoo,” says Esther van Duijn, one of eight conservators restoring ...