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Inspired by a Caravaggio

March video update

From the series Operation Night Watch

The Night Watch can be seen again. The painting lay temporarily flat on its stomach so that it could be placed onto a new stretcher. You can see in this video how this was done.

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Treatment of The Night Watch started

0:55 min. - Rembrandt's masterpiece goes face down!

Hoisting paintings

5 min. reading time - An accident in 1901

Structural treatment of The Night Watch

5 min. reading time - What is being done?

February video update

2:05 min. - Start of the treatment

Completion of the structural treatment

5 min. reading time - A new stretcher for The Night Watch

March video update

1:19 min. - The Night Watch has a new stretcher

Inspired by a Caravaggio

10 min. readig time - How a Caravaggio painting inspired the spring tensioning system of The Night Watch