{"id":2184,"date":"2024-07-29T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:13:54","slug":"dutch-chemists-finally-work-out-how-rembrandt-achieved-the-golden-lustre-in-his-the-night-watch-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/dutch-chemists-finally-work-out-how-rembrandt-achieved-the-golden-lustre-in-his-the-night-watch-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Chemists Finally Work Out How Rembrandt Achieved the Golden Lustre in His \u2018The Night Watch\u2019 Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Chemists from Holland\u2019s University of Amsterdam (UvA) have finally worked out how\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_rembrandt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"rembrandt\">Rembrandt<\/a>\u00a0managed to embellish his\u00a0<em><a id=\"auto-tag_the-night-watch\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"the-night-watch\">The Night Watch<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1642) painting with striking golden detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">They used high-tech spectroscopic techniques to identify the presence of pararealgar [yellow] and semi-amorphous pararealgar [orange\/red] pigments in minute detail in the famous artwork. The research team concluded that the Dutch artist intentionally mixed these particular arsenic sulfide pigments with other pigments to create the golden sheen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The study was published in the Heritage Science journal by Fr\u00e9derique Broers and Nouchka de Keyser, who are Ph.D. students at UvA\u2019s Van \u2019t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, and also researchers at Amersterdam\u2019s Rijksmuseum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\" class=\"admz \">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang \" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"1\">\n<div class=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\" data-priority=\"10\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Rembrandt used the technique to paint the golden threading in the embroidered buff coat and double sleeves sported by one of\u00a0<em>The Night Watch\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>two protagonists, Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The discovery of the arsenic sulfide pigments is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Operation Night Watch<\/a> project that began in 2019. The research has unearthed other secrets, including the presence of arsenic and sulfur in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Van Ruytenburch<\/a>\u2019s clothing following an X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scan. As a result, researchers presume Rembrandt used arsenic sulfide pigments realgar [red] and orpiment [yellow].<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The research is supported by historical sources detailing the use of arsenic sulfide pigments and it\u2019s now thought that a wider range of such materials was available to artists in 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century Amsterdam than previously believed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists from Holland\u2019s University of Amsterdam (UvA) have finally worked out how\u00a0Rembrandt\u00a0managed to embellish his\u00a0The Night Watch\u00a0(1642) painting with striking golden detail. They used high-tech spectroscopic techniques to identify the presence of pararealgar [yellow] and semi-amorphous pararealgar [orange\/red] pigments in minute detail in the famous artwork. 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