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Hoisting paintings

Treatment of The Night Watch started

From the series Operation Night Watch

Rembrandt’s masterpiece is to be remounted on an aluminium stretcher. This is necessary because the canvas shows deformations in the top left-hand corner, among other places. The canvas must therefore be laid flat on its stomach.

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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