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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.
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.
A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic “Night Watch” painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ ˈ r ɛ m b r æ n t, ˈ r ɛ m b r ɑː n t /; [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most famous paintings in the world. [ citation needed ] One of its key elements is the effective use of light and shadow ( chiaroscuro ).
The sculptures of the Night Watch in 3D at the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam in 2006-2009 As part of the celebration of the artist's 400th birthday in 2006, a bronze-cast representation of his most famous painting, The Night Watch , by Russian artists Mikhail Dronov and Alexander Taratynov was displayed around the Royer work.
Painstaking Rembrandt restoration The varnish has started to be removed, as part of the first stage [Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum] The largest restoration of Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night ...