Art isn’t the opposite of science, but its other half. That’s one of the many conclusions gleaned so far by the team at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum studying how to restore Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.

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 ...

Rembrandt van Rijn revolutionized painting with a 3D effect using his impasto technique, where thick paint makes a masterpiece protrude from the surface. Thanks to the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, ...

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 ...

Dutch and French scientists and have discovered the secret behind Rembrandt’s brilliant and life-life impasto technique. “We didn’t expect to find this phase at all, as it is so unusual in Old Masters ...

And Rembrandt’s thick impasto brush strokes are probably impossible for anyone to reproduce exactly, Hai-ou says. “Just look at the way he paints the jewelry,” she says.

Un tuorlo d’uovo mescolato con olio di lino bollito e ossido di piombo: potrebbe essere questo il mix per un impasto perfetto il segreto della tecnica pittorica del grande artista olandese Rembrandt ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I sometimes feel like a monkey in a zoo,” says Esther van Duijn, one of eight conservators restoring Rembrandt ...

Svelato dopo tre secoli l'ingrediente segreto della tecnica a impasto usata da Rembrandt per rendere tridimensionali i suoi dipinti: si tratta della plumbonacrite, un minerale ritrovato rarissime ...