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Night Day Watch
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*dedicated to all lovers of looking at craquelure in museums, and running noses through paintings
Oh, a long time ago, I attempted to write about this wonderful work, and finally I got my hands on it!
The Night Watch is Rembrandt's most famous painting. At least, that's what the search engines say.
In general, it is called The performance of the rifle company of Captain Frans Bunning Kok and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, and the day watch is depicted on it.
The artist experimented a lot with pigments, compositions, colors, varnishes, and some chemical elements simply reacted over time, so the canvas darkened over the years.
It was the dark varnish that formed the idea of the night scene in the last century, and the very «folk» name of the work of the great Dutchman.
In 2019, quite a long, and very painstaking, work began on the restoration of the Watch, and it took place live in a specially equipped glass space and with the assistance of AI.
And there was something to restore: the master finished the painting itself in 1642 — pretty respectable age of work. In 1911 and 1975, people rushed to the Patrol with knives, and in 1990 it was doused with acid, at all.
If we return to chemistry, it has recently become clear how Rembrandt managed to recreate the golden thread on the clothes of Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch. The master used various arsenic compounds. Imagine, even poison in the hands of a real artist can become a great art!
It's scary to imagine what the old masters had to work with: prepare paints from poisons, grind various minerals to get the right pigment, use dried human remains as materials...
Who knows if this had a detrimental effect on their health and shortened their lives, depriving them of the opportunity to create ahead of time?
"So what's up with the craquelures?" you ask. But I'll tell you about this on Sunday
There will be real magic, don't miss it!
