TORONTO (CTV Network) — In the process of conserving a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Rembrandt, scientists have isolated an unexpected chemical within the paint, shedding light on some of the ...

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Scientists have discovered a rare lead compound (named lead formate) in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch. This rare discovery provides new insight into 17th-century painting technique and the ...

Researchers found a compound in one of Rembrandt’s works that has never been detected in a finished painting before. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has spent the last few years carefully studying its ...

The Rijksmuseum museum said that it had finally sniffed out a sketch that inspired the dog in Rembrandt's iconic "Night Watch ...

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 ...

(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 ...

An international team of scientists from the Rijksmuseum, the CNRS, the ESRF the European Synchrotron, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp, have discovered a rare lead compound ...