You can learn lots about Rembrant's 1642 painting "The Night Watch" on the website of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and you can zoom in up close on Google's new "GoogleArtProject" website. Beyond all the historical details about who's in the painting and how Rembrandt structured the group portrait, I'm always amazed by how much of this huge painting is very dark. It's about four yards high and almost five wide, and you can imagine the amount of time the artist spent applying very dark black, brown, and grey paint to large areas of the canvas...
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