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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 ...
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.
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.
When conservators used X-rays to analyze Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” they discovered something unexpected under its surface: lead.
One of Rembrandt van Rijn's biggest paintings just got a bit bigger. A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic “Night ...
De Nachtwacht, Dutch original title of The Night Watch, a 1642 painting by Rembrandt. Nachtwacht, official name of exoplanet HAT-P-6 b . Topics referred to by the same term
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.
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.