Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

Rembrandt van Rijn revolutionized painting with a 3D effect using his impasto technique, where thick paint makes a masterpiece protrude from the surface. Thanks to the ESRF, the European ...

Visitors watch restoration work on Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum on November 3, 2021. Photo: Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Images.

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

To conduct their study, researchers took tiny paint samples, less than 0.1mm in size, from three Rembrandt paintings: The Portrait of Marten Soolmans (1634) at the Rijksmuseum, Bathsheba (1654 ...

And Rembrandt’s thick impasto brush strokes are probably impossible for anyone to reproduce exactly, Hai-ou says. “Just look at the way he paints the jewelry,” she says.

The largely Dutch team scanned more than 300 paintings by Rembrandt and employed algorithms to analyze such criteria as facial proportions, head direction and the thickness of the painting on the ...