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The Night Watch: The Missing Pieces

From the series Operatie Nachtwacht

Several sections were cut from The Night Watch in the past. The Operation Night Watch team has successfully recreated these missing pieces, with the help of artificial intelligence.

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A computer learns to paint like Rembrandt

1:57 min - Artificial intelligence

The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq

Missing pieces of The Night Watch

View and compare the reconstruction with The Night Watch

The Night Watch: The Missing Pieces

11:13 min. - For the first time in 300 years The Night Watch is complete again!

Cut it off

1:17 min. - The Night Watch was originally bigger. It really was!