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The Night Watch (Rembrandt)

Listed under Works of Art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Rated 17th of all Works of Art in the world.

'Night Watch or The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch. It is on prominent display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is its most famous painting...The painting is renowned for three elements: Its colossal size (363 x 437 cm ~ 11ft 3in x 14ft 4in), the effective use of light and shadow, and the perception of motion in what would have been, traditionally, a static military portrait.' Wikipedia, Painted in 1642.

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