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The Night Watch is the subject of a 2007 film by director Peter Greenaway called Nightwatching, in which the film posits a conspiracy within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment ...
Nightwatching is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting The Night Watch.The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as his other lover Hendrickje Stoffels.
Night Watch is a 1973 mystery thriller film directed by Brian G. Hutton from a screenplay by Tony Williamson, based on the 1972 play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher. [1] The film reunited Elizabeth Taylor with co-star Laurence Harvey from their 1960 collaboration BUtterfield 8. [2] It was the last time the pair acted together on screen. [3]
Rembrandt statue and the sculptures of The Night Watch in 3D at the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam Rembrandt statue in Leiden Rembrandt and Saskia. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) is one of the most famous, [1] [2] controversial, and one of the best expertly researched (visual) artists in history. [3] [4]
Frans Banninck Cocq, who seems to have had one deaf brother, [8] studied law in Poitiers and Bourges between 1625 and 1627. [9] In 1630 he married Maria Overlander van Purmerland, daughter of knight Volkert Overlander, merchant, one of the founders of the Dutch East Trading Company, a few times burgemeester of Amsterdam and Lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam.
Detail of Willem van Ruytenburch from Rembrandt's The Night Watch. Willem van Ruytenburch, lord of Vlaardingen and Vlaardingen-Ambacht (1600–1652) was a member of the Dutch gentry and Amsterdam patriciate of the Dutch Golden Age. He became an alderman of Amsterdam and joined the Schutterij (city guard) of Frans Banninck Cocq.
In 2006, Greenaway began a series of digital video installations, Nine Classical Paintings Revisited, with his exploration of Rembrandt's Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. On 30 June 2008, after much negotiation, Greenaway staged a one-night performance 'remixing' da Vinci 's The Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle ...
Concord of the State is a 1642 oil-on-panel painting by Rembrandt, now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It measures 74.6 cm x 101 cm and is signed and dated "REMBRANDT F. 164(.)". In terms of style and theme it is linked to The Night Watch – both paintings include symbolism and allegories of the Dutch Republic and Amsterdam.