Rembrandt uses the light to focus on particular ... giving the false impression it depicts a night scene. The Night Watch has been attacked with a knife - in 1911 and again in 1975, when the ...

Rembrandt's The Night Watch, one of the world's most famous paintings, is on the way to being seen in all its glory again after five years of painstaking restoration ...

The 12-by-14-foot baroque painting now known as “The Night Watch” was commissioned ... facing the viewer in static poses, Rembrandt created a narrative scene of lively action with 34 characters.