He is currently involved in the art historical research of the Night Watch. She has worked on several paintings by Rembrandt's pupils and studio and will be involved in the technical research and treatment of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. Prior to that, he studied applied Physics for two years at the University of Twente. Her research focuses mainly on the painting technique of Dutch 17th century artists, including Johannes Cornelis Verspronck and Pieter de Hooch. Carola is one of the initiators of the Manual photographing 3D objects for the Rijksmuseum that was published during 2and3D Photography conference, Amsterdam (2017). She has been involved in MA-XRF imaging of several paintings by Rembrandt including the Jewish Bride, the Syndics and Claudius Civilis and will be involved in the technical research and conservation treatment of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. Carola is, with Henni van Beek, the author of the instruction manual for the photography of 2D objects. In 2016-2017 she was involved in the ‘Matthijs Maris at Work’ technical research project, and the accompanying book publication at the Rijksmuseum. Operation Night Watch would not be possible without our benefactors and partners. After shortly working at the Museum of the Tropics, he became a metals conservator at the Rijksmuseum in 1995. During the last two years of her conservation studies she interned at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), the Rijksmuseum and the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, US. "The Night Watch" -- the official title of which is the less catchy "Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq" -- depicts one of Amsterdam's civil guard companies and was commissioned by its leader, Frans Banninck Cocq, who was also the city's mayor. Last restored in 1975 following a knife attack, the restoration of The Night Watch is expected to take years. The painting was slashed again In 1975, this time by an unemployed schoolteacher with a history of mental illness. In the framework of Operation Night Watch she will work on different photographic techniques. Taco Dibbits, General Director Rijksmuseum: The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings in the world. For Operation Night Watch, Katrien will be responsible for the scientific research and paint sample analyses. Step across the red cord, take captain Frans Banninck Cocq’s hand, zoom in and let yourself be carried away into the world of the Night Watch. In 2008, she received a PhD in chemistry from FOM Institute AMOLF/ UvA on the topic of ‘Color changes and chemical reactivity in seventeenth-century oil paintings’. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum on Monday began the painstaking and costly process of restoring the famous Rembrandt painting Night Watch - a task which will take at … This led to the discovery that Rembrandt removed feathers from the helmets on the painting and that he used pigments containing poisonous arsenic. Many of the previously applied varnishes consist of a natural resin that ages and yellows over time. Rembrandt used a wide array of pigments for The Night Watch. Big, bigger, bigger! From 1994 to 2004, Weber served as curator of Italian painting at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, and from 2004 to 2009 as director of the Gemäldegalerie in Kassel. The Rijksmuseum continuously monitors the condition of De Nachtwacht. Rembrandt's Night Watch. Henni is also involved in establishing guidelines for 2D digitization that serve as the standard for all photography in the museum. Since 2014 she has been working at the Rijksmuseum on different projects such as the development of the Paint Sample Database and a user-friendly system to gain color accurate photographs of cross-sections and the research and conservation of Rembrandt’s portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. It hangs in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, which has planned the restoration in … For example, the researchers may want to discover the reason for the white haze that can be seen in the picture surface here and there. In total the robot has taken more than 8400 photos at an extremely high resolution of 5 microme-tres, or five thousandths of a millimetre. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a master’s degree and professional post-master in Conservation and Restoration of Paintings in 2010. Amsterdam museum begins live restoration of Rembrandt masterpiece. In the Rijksmuseum’s Fine Arts department, he primarily works as writer and editor-in-chief of a series of catalogs of 17th-century North Dutch paintings. Roeloefs is currently involved in the art historical research of the Night Watch and is part of the Night Watch advisory committee. Annelies van Loon is Paintings research scientist at the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis. Susan Smelt is a paintings conservator who holds a BA and MA in Art History (University of Groningen) and a Professional Doctorate in Conservation and Restoration of Paintings (2012, University of Amsterdam). The multi-million-euro overhaul of the giant 1642 masterpiece, one of the world's most famous paintings, will also be streamed online so that "everyone in the world" can see. She has been working in the Rijksmuseum since April 2015 focusing on technical research and non-destructive analytical techniques. Victor Gonzalez is junior scientist in the Science Department at the Rijksmuseum where he is involved in the scientific analysis of the materials and techniques of old master paintings, with a focus on historic inorganic pigments. For Operation Night Watch she is responsible for the macro-XRF scanning of the painting. It is celebrated particularly for its bold and energetic composition, with the musketeers being depicted ‘in motion’, rather than in static portrait poses. She graduated with a BA in chemistry (2009) and a MA in Physical Chemistry (2011) and a PhD in Chemical science applied to cultural heritage study (2015) at the University of Perugia and CNR-ISTM. Following a postgraduate internship at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge (MA), she has been working as a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum since 2004. Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch is to stay on public display as part of the Rijksmuseum's biggest restoration project in its history. Carola van Wijk has been working as a staff photographer at the Rijksmuseum since 2007. “The Night Watch,” commissioned in 1642 by members of Amsterdam’s civic guard, is Rembrandt’s only painting of a militia group. Last year saw the completion of the restoration of Rembrandt’s spectacular portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. From 2016 to 2018 she was a postdoctoral researcher in imaging science at National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, USA, where she learnt and developed reflectance imaging techniques applied to the study of many art objects. 2744. The second exhibition, Rembrandt-Velázquez (11 October 2019 to 19 January 2020), will put the master in international context by placing 17th-century Spanish and Dutch masterpieces in dialogue with each another. In the webshop of the Rijksmuseum you will find the greatest gift items with this incomparable masterpiece. He has been a part-time Staff Photographer for the Rijksmuseum since 2005. With his skills as a semi-physicist, he has developed several tools to improve the photographic workflow. Lisette has worked on special projects for the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013, this included the stretching of two large scale wax-resin lined paintings, one being the largest free hanging painting in the Rijksmuseum: The Battle of Waterloo (J.W. The group portrait of the officers and other members of the militia company of District II, under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, now known as the Night Watch, is Rembrandt’s most ambitious painting. His PhD (1987) concerned art theory of the Dutch 17th century. The multi-million-euro overhaul of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch', one of the world's most famous paintings, will be streamed online An Amsterdam museum on … She trained as a chemist (MSc, UvA) and a paintings conservator (SRAL), before she specialized in the materials analysis and ageing and deterioration processes of old master paintings. He is the author of ‘Marten and Oopjen: two monumental portraits by Rembrandt’ (2016) and ‘Rembrandt: Biography of a Rebel’ (2019). He organised various exhibitions on 16th to 18th century paintings, including four exhibitions on Rembrandt - in Kassel 'Rembrandt im Kontrast. Rembrandt painting for sale comes with artist's fingerprints. In 2013 she successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis ‘All that glitters is not gold. Prior to that, he served as Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona (USA). "The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings in the world," Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits told a media conference in front of the glass restoration case, alongside the research team. If you wish to order more than {{maxAmountOfArticles}} tickets, you have to make a group reservation. Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has begun work on a major new restoration project. The restorers, data experts and art historians at the Rijksmuseum call it Operation Night Watch. In addition to this he gives courses on digitization and the evaluation of scans to new co-workers at the National Archive. Each scan will take 24 hours and 56 scans will be required to cover the entire canvas. It is more than 40 years since the Night Watch underwent its last major restoration, following an attack on the painting in 1975. Nienke conducted full restoration treatments and technical research on paintings by Colijn de Coter, Jan van Goyen, Aert de Gelder, George Hendrik Breitner and Fernand Khnopff. All the Rembrandts of the Rijksmuseum (15 February to 10 June 2019) will bring together the Rijksmuseum’s entire collection of Rembrandt’s paintings, drawings and prints, for the first time in history. The Night Watch was last restored in 1976 after a visitor vandalized it with a bread knife. As conservator she worked on numerous paintings from the 17th to the 19th century, from Van Goyen to Van Gogh. By Frances Romero Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. She was formerly Associate Professor in Technical Art History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland where she established an MA programme in Technical Art History. They may also want to see how the paint layers are built up, or whether the paint has altered in the course of time, and if so, how. These articles appeared as a special edition of the Rijksmuseum Bulletin in 1976 following the 1975 conservation treatment. ED OUDENAARDEN / AFP / Getty. A great deal of experience has been gained in the Rijksmuseum relating to the restoration of Rembrandt’s paintings. The Rijksmuseum invites members of the public to watch the entire process at the museum and online. In 2012 he finished his PhD at Delft University of Technology combining Materials Science and Art History with the title: ‘Technical Studies of Renaissance Bronzes'. ". She is responsible for managing, assessing and performing conservation work on paintings going on loan. The current varnish layers on the Night Watch are not original but were applied during the restorations in the ‘70s and ‘90s. For Operation Night Watch she will be responsible for the conservation treatment of the painting. Its nickname derives from the fact that the many layers of varnish applied to the painting over the centuries darkened it to the point that it seemed to depict a night scene. In 1990, a man sprayed acid on it from a concealed bottle, damaging the varnish. Erma Hermens is Rijksmuseum Professor of Studio Practice and Technical Art History at the University of Amsterdam, Art History, Faculty of Humanities, and Senior Researcher in Technical Art History at the Rijksmuseum. The large-scale 12.5 by … Petria Noble is Head of Paintings Conservation at the Rijksmuseum. The results of the various studies are now last coming together and that means that a plan for the restoration can be drawn up. The condition of the painting is constantly monitored. She coordinated the research project ‘Matthijs Maris at Work’, and the accompanying book publication. In the framework of Operation Night Watch she will work on different photographic techniques. This will ensure that the painting can remain on display for museum visitors. Next to full conservation treatments and research on paintings, Lisette has gained (practical) experience with collections management and preventive conservation. Would you like to help pass on The Night Watch to future generations? The project aims to go deep into the history of the "The Night Watch," investigating Rembrandt's technique and the impact of previous restorations, analyzing the canvas with the latest imaging technology, and eventually coming up with the best possible plan to preserve the artwork for future generations. This was one of a series of seven similar paintings of the militiamen ( In 2016-2018 she led the treatment of Rembrandt’s 1634 portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. Giulia Sara de Vivo is a paintings conservator trained at the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome (2007) and at the Universita’ della Tuscia (2014). He is currently involved in the scientific research of the Night Watch, where he is responsible for the scientific data infrastructure and computational imaging. The most famous work of Rembrandt, the Night Watch, will get a grand restoration starting July 2019. The Night Watch will be visible in the glass chamber during the entire project. She is conducting her PhD research on the technical development of painted wall hangings within this project. Currently, he is part of the steering group of Operation Night Watch and is involved in the art historical research of the Night Watch. During and after her conservation studies she worked at the Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL), the Mauritshuis and in private practice. Since 2009 he is Head of Fine and Decorative Arts of the Rijkmuseum. Lisette Vos is a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. She has published and lectured widely in this field and (co)organized many conferences. All three can detect a different band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Night Watch (1642) is one of the most famous paintings in the world - but why? Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has placed Rembrandt’s baroque masterpiece The Night Watch (1642) on public display as the museum begins an extensive restoration. The Night Watch will be encased in a state-of-the-art clear glass chamber designed by the French architect Jean Michel Wilmotte. The depiction of gold-brocaded velvets in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish paintings’. She is responsible for the photography of 3D objects and paintings and for the museum’s conservation photography. Sorry, there aren’t any updates on the research phase yet. The Rijksmuseum continually monitors the condition of the Night Watch, and it has been discovered that changes are occurring, such as the blanching on the dog figure at the lower right of the painting. From 2016 to 2018 she led the scientific research in support of the treatment of Rembrandt’s portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. Some of them are examined more in depth here. Katrien Keune has a PhD in chemistry and is head of Science at the Rijksmuseum. Paintings are often varnished with a transparent varnish layer to saturate and protect the paint layers. This will ensure that the painting can remain on display for museum visitors. To gain a better understanding of its condition as a whole, the decision has been taken to conduct a thorough examination. He has also contributed to a number of Rijksmuseum exhibition catalogs. The first research part of Operation Night Watch has been a succes. He is, with Carola van Wijk, the author of the Instruction manual for 2d objects for the Rijksmuseum. Nienke Woltman graduated from the Paintings Conservation Masters Programme at the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and has been working as Junior Paintings Conservator at the Rijksmuseum since 2013. He worked as a lecturer at various institutions, including the University of Bamberg, which appointed him 'honorary professor' in 2005. The Night Watch by Rembrandt, one of the world’s most spectacular paintings, is to be restored under the world’s gaze at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, its … Rijksmuseum visitors will be invited to watch the restoration of The Night Watch, Rembrandt’s most celebrated masterpiece next year. 2019, The Year of Rembrandt In 2013 she joined the interdisciplinary research ‘From Isolation to Coherence: an Integrated Technical, Visual and Historical Study of 17th and 18th Century Dutch Painting Ensembles’. Therefore these varnish layers are generally removed and replaced during restorations. First, separate photos were taken, which were subsequently digitally assembled to form a single image. Die Blendung Simsons und der Segen Jakobs' (2005/2006), 'Rembrandts landscapes' (2006, in collaboration with the Lakenhal, Leyden), 'Rembrandt-Bilder. Among other things this provides us with a mass of information about the pigments that Rembrandt used in the painting. The department Science, a sub-department of Conservation & Science, conducts research on the Rijksmuseum collection in close collaboration with conservators, curators and (technical) art historians. His current work focuses on applying data science and microstructural analysis to collect, process, and visualize massive multimodal datasets for art objects. Eighteen names appear on a shield, painted circa 1715, in the center-right background, as the hired drummer was added to the painting for free. From this week, "The Night Watch," one of Dutch master Rembrandt's most famous paintings, will be painstakingly restored in front of what could be millions of onlookers. Robert van Langh is head of the Department of Conservation & Science at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a position he has held since 2006. Since 2015 Robert also serves as chair of NICAS (Netherlands Institute of Conservation, Art and Science), an innovative multidisciplinary research centre housed in the Rijksmuseum Conservation building, uniting art history, conservation and the exact sciences. A total of 34 characters appear in the painting. Rembrandt was paid 1,600 guilders for the painting (each person paid one hundred), a large sum at the time. Pieneman). This 1642 commission by members of Amsterdam’s civic guard is Rembrandt’s first and only painting of a militia group. When Die historische Sammlung der Kasseler Gemäldegalerie' (2006) and in Amsterdam 'Late Rembrandt' (2015, with Jonathan Bikker in collaboration with the National Gallery, London). In 1911 it was attacked with a knife by a visitor who wanted to protest the fact that he was unemployed. Before focusing on cultural heritage, he worked on multiscale computational materials science, image processing, and machine learning for design of novel materials and material processing. In addition, more than 12,000 high-resolution photographs will be taken from a distance of up to 5 micrometers (a thousandth of a millimeter), revealing never before seen details in the pigments. She was also main researcher of the ‘REVISRembrandt Project’ about the development and application of new chemical imaging techniques to Rembrandt’s late painting technique. Robert Erdmann is Senior Scientist at the Rijksmuseum and Full Professor in the Faculties of Science (Physics) and Humanities (Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage) at the University of Amsterdam, positions he has held since 2014. One of the research projects he is co-supervising is the Thread Count Automation Project on the Utrecht Caravaggisti. Weber studied art history at universities in Cologne, Aachen and Utrecht. The Night Watch has inspired artists and designers for centuries. You wish to order {{totalArticles}} tickets. Two Raphael paintings unearthed at the Vatican after 500 years. Operation Night Watch is made possible by The Bennink Foundation, C.L. More information? In addition, the cameras reveal the underlaying sketch layers or modifications. A digital platform will allow viewers from all over the world to follow the entire process online continuing the Rijksmuseum innovation in the digital field. She also holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Why touching art is so tempting -- and exciting. To determine whether the varnish can be safely removed from the paint layers, varnish removal tests are currently being carried out. Rembrandt expert Jonathan Bikker answers this and various other questions in this publication. Laura Raven is a Junior Paintings Conservator who graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a BA in Art History (2011), and a MSc (2013) and Professional Doctorate (2016) in Conservation and Restoration of Paintings. The actual restoration is expected to start early next year - a few months later than planned as the coronavirus delayed the studies. Using these and other methods, we will be able to form a very detailed picture of the painting – not only of the painted surface, but of each and every layer, from varnish to canvas. Anna Krekeler was trained as a paintings conservator at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden, where she graduated in 2007. Her expertise lies in aging and degradation studies of pigments and oil paintings at the micro- and molecular level, especially related to pigment-binding medium interactions. He studied Art History at McMaster University and Queen’s University in Canada. As an expert in the material aspects of Rembrandt paintings she has (co-)published widely in conservation and scientific journals. de Carvalho-Heineken, PACCAR Foundation, Piet van der Slikke & Sandra Swelheim, American Express Foundation, Familie De Rooij, Het AutoBinck Fonds, Segula Technologies, Dina & Kjell Johnsen, Familie D. Ermia, Familie M. van Poecke, Bruker Nano Analytics, Henry M. Holterman Fonds, Irma Theodora Fonds, Luca Fonds, Piek-den Hartog Fonds, Stichting Zabawas, Cevat Fonds, Johanna Kast-Michel Fonds, Marjorie & Jeffrey A. Rosen, Stichting Thurkowfonds and the Night Watch Fund. It is more than 40 years since the Night Watch underwent its last major restoration, following an attack on the painting in 1975. The painting was commissioned around 1639 by Captain Banninck Cocq and seventeen members of his Kloveniers (civic militia guards). In the frame work of the of the Late Rembrandt exhibition in 2015 she performed research into the painting technique of Rembrandt’s late works and contributed to the catalogue essay on the artist’s experimental technique. She is currently involved in the technical art historical research of the Night Watch. The technique employed can identify different pigments very precisely on the evidence of their crystalline structure. From 2010 to 2016 he was a freelance photographer involved in the Bosch Research and Conservation Project. Jonathan Bikker has worked at the Rijksmuseum since 2001 and has been Curator of Research since 2006. In 2012-15 she was employed by the Vatican Museums, before that she had worked on the Omayyad paintings of UNESCO World Heritage site Qusayr Amra (Kingdom of Jordan, 2012) and held a private practice in conservation. You’ll find the massive painting in the Gallery of Honour located in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.It is the first time since 1976 that the Rembrandt painting is being restored. During this time he developed the metals conservation training program now being taught at the University of Amsterdam. From this week, "The Night Watch," one of Dutch master Rembrandt's most famous paintings, will be painstakingly restored in front of what could be millions of onlookers. Read our cookie policy. Help us to preserve The Night Watch for future generations. In 2014 Lisette participated in the research project ‘From Isolation to Coherence: an Integrated Technical, Visual and Historical Study of 17th and 18th Century Dutch Painting Ensembles’ at the Delft University of Technology and the Rijksmuseum. She will be involved in the technical research and conservation treatment of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. 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