The night watch by rembrandt is right now being restored under the watchful eye of well anyone who wishes to see the painstaking restoration process the painting is a 400 years old and it was lost restored after a knife attack on it in 1975 that restoration has started to discolor a bit the rice museum in amsterdam has decided it is such an important painting that the public should be allowed to see it as its current renovation precedes. Operation night watch cutting kerner is allowed to get right up close to the rembrandt painting the chemist is in charge of a team of 20 researchers restoring The Night Watch is the chance of a lifetime. Many other one hind of pigments did he use 400 years ago with and how has the condition changed im certain that it will gain a lot of information from these investigations and that will be able to dive deeply
into the analysis of this art work the painting is famous for several things its size measuring 16 square metres and weighing 170 kilograms the w
into the analysis of this art work the painting is famous for several things its size measuring 16 square metres and weighing 170 kilograms the way rembrandt created the perception of motion in what traditionally would have been a static military group portrait and the use of light and shadow it s well known that the master painted himself into the scene but what secrets might the work be hiding. my days in america the 1st step is using this macro x. ray fluorescence analysis to scan everything bit by bit and analyzing the layers from the vanish to the canvas and it tells us something about the way rembrandt worked on paper bag that s of vital importance because the plan is to clean the painting repair damage and make visible details that had previously been hidden. the work was successfully hidden from the nazis during the 2nd world war it s been vandalized 3 times including being stabbed 13 times with
closely studied paintings it s no secret that rembrandt put himself in it and experts agree the golden girl in the middle bears a resemblance to his wife saskia but what other secrets does the work hide. and that there s a macro x. if you re a scientist or a sense ganesh give us some answers that we re scanning the whole image bit by bit to find out what s in it is very elementary for barracked for example it can tell us about the painter rembrandt used and how he used it for them but they found that that in turn sheds light on his working methods used on the head of the city this ghana also reveals the changes that have been made over the last 4 centuries to the 170 kilogram canvas 20 research has a working inside a specially designed glass case so that visitors to the museum can follow each step did not so after is