Night Watch by Rembrandt (1624)
1 2016-07-29T08:15:37-07:00 Kelly Mueller d3b0d952cffe3f21edc6c5541645a2fc75bf2bec 10162 1 Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch, is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings and is window 16 in the Canon of Amsterdam. The painting is renowned for three characteristics: its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)), the effective use of light and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military portrait. One of the most important aspects of the Night Watch is that the figures are nearly human size. Rembrandt gives the illusion that the characters jump off the canvas and into real space. plain 2016-07-29T08:15:37-07:00 Kelly Mueller d3b0d952cffe3f21edc6c5541645a2fc75bf2becThis page is referenced by:
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to accept unless satisfied
Streets here not nearly as clean
as Berlin + canals quite
foul in places
Aug 30 Jep + I walked to
telegraph office at 1130 took
taxi to C.S. Church on Marnex
str + found it closed through
August. English service
Took train back. Fine small
new cars Fare 2 cents Amer.
20 seats + no more allowed in
car but you can stand on
platform. Service good +
foes to every part of town
Cars all seem fired on top
After lunch we spent an hour
in the Rijks Museum.
A few of the Rembrandts are
wonderful including the Night
Watch + the portrait of the widow
of a Dutch Admiral
2 of Van Der Heslt + 2 Franz
Hals + a few of Peter de Hoogh
stand out prominently but the
number of real masterpieces
are small for so large a
