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The prints, thought to be impressions of the painter’s thumb, were found hidden underneath “overpaint and darkened varnish layers” on the 10-inch artwork, called “Study of the Head and Clasped Hands ...

A new x-ray analysis of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has revealed that the mammoth oil painting contains a hidden base layer of lead. The 1642 work, one of the Dutch Old Master’s most famous, hangs at ...

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

A painting known as "Old man with a beard" has been identified as a Rembrandt work thanks to the discovery of a hidden image underneath the paint. A painting known as "Old man with a beard" has been ...

Amidst his palette of reds and browns, Rembrandt used wheat, according to a new state-of-the-art analysis of two of his works. It is the first study to identify wheat starch in any of Rembrandt's work ...

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(CNN) — In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares to march out to defend their city. Rembrandt, a ...