Rembrandts

AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands arm of climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protested on Sunday (Mar 5) next to Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. Two of the protesters held up a replica of the famous…

An international team of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the CNRS, the ESRF the European Synchrotron, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, have discovered a rare lead compound (named lead formate) in Rembrandt's…

The restoration is being done behind glass walls in the gallery where the painting is usually on display. Completed in 1642, the painting, which measures 3.8m x 4.5m and weighs 337kg, portrays the captain of an Amsterdam city militia…

A hidden preparatory sketch has been revealed under Rembrandt's famous masterpiece, The Night Watch — the enormous painting that hangs in a museum in Amsterdam. "This is like the first beginnings of the composition that he worked up…