Historians have sniffed out a similar canine in an Adriaen van de Venne drawing. "Operation Night Watch" looks at the dog in Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch. Photo: by Kelly Schenk, ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” painting looks a little out of ...
What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam It can ...
It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...
The 17th century drawing by Dutch artist Adriaen van de Venne which inspired Rembrandt when painting a dog in the "Night Watch," is shown on an easel at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ...
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The Mystery of the Small Dog in Rembrandt's Monumental Masterpiece 'The Night Watch' Has Officially Been Solved
When Rembrandt van Rijn unveiled The Night Watch in 1642, it was unlike anything audiences had seen before. While typical military portraits showed men in stationary poses, the Dutch artist’s painting ...
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