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19+ The Night Watch Painting Rembrandt Pics
13/12/2014 00:00
19+ The Night Watch Painting Rembrandt Pics. Rembrandt depicted the group of militiamen in an. A militia painting is a group portrait of a division of the civic guard.
The night watch is one of the most famous dutch golden age paintings. The other people who appear in the painting were added by rembrandt with an eye to enhancing the composition. So did the night watch really lead to rembrandt's downfall?
Walter benjamin once said that every great work either dissolves a genre or founds a new one, but this painting fits neatly in an established tradition:
Rembrandt painted his masterpiece the night watch from a live scene. It was painted in 1642, during the dutch golden age—a time when dutch trade, science, military, and art led the world. Rembrandt painted the night watch in 1642 and is known as one of his most famous paintings. A militia painting is a group portrait of a division of the civic guard.