Rembrandt is one of the most famed artists of all time and scientists have finally discovered the secret ingredient to his iconic technique. The Dutch genius refined his impasto technique, which gave ...

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TORONTO (CTV Network) — In the process of conserving a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Rembrandt, scientists have isolated an unexpected chemical within the paint, shedding light on some of the ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Copied images are so pervasive in the modern world that we can easily forget there was a time when they were rarities and objects of wonder. But centuries before the invention of ...

On Sunday, the Minneapolis Institute of Art hosted the last day of “Rembrandt in America,” an exhibition it proudly described as “the largest selection of Rembrandt paintings assembled in the United ...

Ernst van de Wetering, world expert on Rembrandt and his technique, who wielded unique authority with his judgments – obituary He blamed over-attribution of Rembrandt’s paintings to ‘connoisseurship’ ...

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

Last week, scholars revealed an as-yet-unknown Rembrandt painting. The picture, which shows a man looking away, had the rich colors, subtle emotion, characteristic brushstrokes, and evocative play of ...

In a landmark study, Rembrandt: The Painter at Work (1995), van de Wetering explored how the painter worked, thought and experimented with paint, often testing his own theories by emulating ...