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. Operation Night ...

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A new x-ray analysis of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has revealed that the mammoth oil painting contains a hidden base layer of lead. The 1642 work, one of the Dutch Old Master’s most famous, hangs at ...

The second phase of the Rijksmuseum’s Operation Night Watch, the largest research and restoration project ever undertaken for Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpiece—The Night Watch—is in motion. On Tuesday, a ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced last week that the dog depicted in the lower righthand corner of Rembrandt van Rijn's Night Watch (1642) was based on a popular drawing from the 17th-century.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — It didn’t exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city’s ...

(CNN) — In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares to march out to defend their city. Rembrandt, a ...

AMSTERDAM — It didn’t exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city’s landmark ...