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Mountain landscape of The Night Watch

From the series Operation Night Watch

The Night Watch is not flat. Rembrandt was a master of Impasto, using the thickness of paint to achieve all kinds of effects. Delft University of Technology has developed a 3D scanning technique to create a height map of the painting. Learn more about the height variations in the painting in this video.

Structural treatment of The Night Watch

5 min. reading time - What is being done?

The largest-ever photograph

01:22 min. - A photo assembled from thousands of smaller photos taken by a robot

Mountain landscape of The Night Watch

01:22 min. - Fly over the thick layers of paint on Rembrandt's masterpiece

Where are you going with that knife?

01:37 min. - Why do conservation specialists remove very small pieces of paint?

Secrets revealed

01:53 min. - See some of the amazing discoveries in Operation Night Watch

Brittle varnish

5 min. reading time - The 1975-76 treatment