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The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings. Rembrandt's large painting (363 by 437 centimetres (12 by 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet)) is famed for transforming a group portrait of a civic guard company into a compelling drama energized by light and shadow . The title is a misnomer; the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.
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.
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.
When conservators used X-rays to analyze Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” they discovered something unexpected under its surface: lead.
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] For a visual artist in general and an Old Master in particular, Rembrandt has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and nonfiction works.
In 1997, the duo split, with Solem returning to Minneapolis to concentrate on his band Thrush. [10] In 1998, Wilde released the album Spin This , credited to "Danny Wilde + The Rembrandts". [ 10 ] In 2000, Solem and Wilde reunited, and released the album Lost Together as The Rembrandts the following year.
At the time of that sale, Christie’s attributed the biblical scene to the “Circle of Rembrandt,” suggesting it had been carried out by a student or an artist close to the famous painter, and ...
Rembrandt's teachers in Leiden were Jacob van Swanenburgh [note 1] (from 1621 to 1623, [5] with whom he learned pen drawing [6]) and Joris van Schooten. [note 2] [7]However, his six-month stay in Amsterdam in 1624, with Pieter Lastman and Jan Pynasc, was decisive in his training: Rembrandt learned pencil drawing, the principles of composition, and working from nature. [6]