The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have been given a rare view behind the scenes.

For centuries, the Mona Lisa has mesmerized viewers with her mysterious smile, captivating the imaginations of art lovers, ...

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

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have been given a rare view behind the scenes.

“Old Masters” such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study.

Rembrandt, “Oil sketch of The Raising of the Cross” (c. 1642-1645) (all images courtesy Museum Bredius) For decades, a Rembrandt sketch at the Netherlands’s Museum Bredius in the Hague was ...

Scientists unlock more secrets of Rembrandt’s pigments in The Night Watch. Use of arsenic sulfides for yellow, orange/red hues adds to artist's known pigment palette.

The composition of oil paints is incredibly simple. Early forms were created using a combination of organic pigments found in nature and a drying, binding oil – the most common of which was ...

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 ...