AI helps return Rembrandt’s The Night Watch to original size

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Admin

Rijksmuseum reproduces Dutch master’s work in all its glory, 300 years after it was cut to fit between doors

The Night Watch by Rembrandt has enraptured millions visiting Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and its previous homes over the centuries, dazzling with its scale and fine detail.

But it is only from today, thanks to the use of artificial intelligence to recapture some of the Dutch master’s genius, including the sweep of his brush strokes and perspective of his eye, that it can for the first time in 300 years be enjoyed in its complete form.

‘Fake’ Rembrandt came from artist’s workshop and is possibly genuine

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Admin

Head of a Bearded Man revealed to be from same wood panel used for Rembrandt’s Andromeda

A tiny painting of a weary, melancholic old man long rejected as a fake and consigned to a museum basement has been revealed as one from Rembrandt’s workshop, and possibly by the man himself.

The Ashmolean museum in Oxford will this week put on display Head of a Bearded Man (c 1630) which was bequeathed to it in 1951 as a Rembrandt panel. In 1981, it was rejected by the Rembrandt Research Project, the world’s leading authority on the artist that effectively has a final say on attributions.

Banksy altered sea view triptych sells for £2.2m at auction

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Admin

Romantic seascapes – with political message in washed up life jackets – raise funds for Bethlehem hospital

A Banksy triptych, which aims to make a powerful political statement on the global migrant crisis, sold for £2.2m at an auction in London that also featured works by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Bridget Riley.

The three paintings were offered by Banksy to raise money for a hospital in Bethlehem.

‘Hyper-resolution’ image of Rembrandt painting aids restoration restart

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Admin

Lockdown delays restoration of The Night Watch, but it can be viewed online in ‘minute detail’

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has posted online the most detailed photograph ever taken of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, revealing every brushstroke and random fleck of paint.

The so-called hyper-resolution image was launched as the museum announced a delay to the completion of the painting’s restoration, which was begun last year and live-streamed to a global audience.