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 ...

Rembrandt's mistress Geertje, traditionally portrayed as a harpy, and grasping crone is stylishly rehabilitated in this solidly constructed historical novel ...

Fig. 5-2: Rembrandt van Rijn: The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the 'Night Watch', 1642 With every great work of art comes to its fair share of controversy. It’s ...

The Night Watch, which depicts a militia in Amsterdam and was completed in 1642, is around 3.63 metres (12ft) high and 4.37 metres wide. It is the best-known work of the Dutch master Rembrandt van ...

Made for Amsterdam's Arquebusiers Guild Hall, Rembrandt van Rijn's 1642 oil painting is one of the earliest to portray a group in action. A captain, dressed in black, is telling his lieutenant to ...

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 ...

The multi-million-euro overhaul of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch', one of the world's most famous paintings, will be streamed online P Pulse News Agency International by AFP ...

In 2019, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam started Operation Night Watch, a thorough investigation of Rembrandt’s famous painting, “The Night Watch”. For several months, researcher took X-rays of ...