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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 was arguably the first artist to really master the “selfie,” and he did so all the way back in the 1600s. Now, a team of technologists working with Microsoft are bringing Rembrandt’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...