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The Night Watch. Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, [1] also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch ( Dutch: De Nachtwacht ), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum ...
The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642. oil on canvas, h 379.5cm × w 453.5cm × w 337kg More details. Rembrandt's largest and most famous painting was made for one of the three headquarters of Amsterdam's civic guard. These groups of civilian soldiers defended the city from attack.
Night Watch ( Russian: Ночной Дозор, romanized : Nochnoy Dozor) is a 2004 Russian urban fantasy supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis. It is loosely based on the 1998 novel The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko .
Mar 3, 2006 · Night Watch: Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. With Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshina. A fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
Aug 21, 2021 · Night Watch (Russian: Ночной Дозор, Nochnoy Dozor) is a 2004 Russian urban fantasy supernatural thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis.
Sep 19, 2023 · Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds, and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.
The Night Watch. Rijksmuseum. The Night Watch (1642) by Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Rembrandt was the first to depict the figures in a group portrait in action, showing the civic guardsmen taking up their positions in order to march out. His manipulation of light was also unprecedented.
Aug 21, 2023 · The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a monumental canvas displayed today in the “ Gallery of Honour ” of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland’s largest and most prominent museum. Read 15 things you didn’t know about The Night Watch to learn why this very painting is so important and famous in Western art history.
Ultra high resolution photo. This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size. The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell.
Jun 14, 2024 · Painted in 1642, Rembrandt's The Night Watch is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company. The Night Watch, formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (the painting’s simpler, widely known title, first recorded in 1797, was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow ...
