Particular reverence was reserved for Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch (1642), the altarpiece ... An enigmatic girl hovers to their right, her glowing tresses carry a dead chicken, whose ...

Visitors eager to catch a glimpse of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” at the Rijksmuseum in ... watchmen’s company in the form of a small girl with a chicken — and even his own self ...

The Dutch painter Rembrandt covered the surface of his canvas with a substance that contained lead before he began painting his 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch ... A young girl in the foreground ...

The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, is under way at the Rijksmuseum ... such as the captain’s gesturing hand and the young girl, a mascot, in the background.

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 ...

After five years of exhaustive research, a team of eight restorers are starting a grand preservation project on Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece, ‘The Night Watch’ at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... such as the captain’s gesturing hand and the young girl, a mascot, in the background. The ...