A load of art-historical rediscoveries were made in 2025, from a forgotten Dali illustration to the counterproof for a ...

As a young painter in Leiden, Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn signed his canvases with a monogram, but once he hit his stride in Amsterdam he began signing his work as we know ...

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 ...

Head of a Bearded Man is believed to have been painted by a member of Dutch master Rembrandt's studio. Further research is necessary to determine if the work was painted by the artist himself.

Twas night before Christmas when all through the de Young Museum, not a person was stirring, not even a mouse... until ...

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A painting with a winding history of theft, confiscation and diplomatic dispute is on public view again after decades. Its owner says Rembrandt made the work himself, but some experts aren’t convinced ...

How do you paint the color gold? It’s a question that comes up early for many artists, as soon as they’re drawing their first princess crown or dragon hoard and find that the yellow or brown crayons ...

Rembrandt van Rijn was the definition of an “old master”—a painter so deft, his portraits seem to leap from the canvas. But how did he achieve his effects in a time long before projectors, computers ...

New results from the Rijksmuseum’s ongoing research into Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” suggest that he treated his canvas with a lead-based substance before painting the ground layer. Operation Night ...

When the small painting with a slightly damaged surface and cracks in its wood backing materialized in September at an auction house in New Jersey, no one expected great things. First and foremost was ...

There is an interesting new painting in the world. In the Netherlands, a team of scientists, engineers, and art historians, funded by an advertising firm, has used computer programs and 3-D-printing ...