A hidden preparatory sketch has been revealed under Rembrandt's famous masterpiece, The Night Watch — the enormous painting that hangs in a museum in Amsterdam.
More than 300 years after someone sliced off the edges of a Rembrandt masterpiece, scientists have used an artificial intelligence to recreate the missing pieces.
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Rembrandt’s huge ‘Night Watch’ gets bigger thanks to AI
A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic “Night Watch” painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it.
Amsterdam, June 23, 2021 — One of Rembrandt van Rijn’s biggest paintings just got a bit bigger.
A marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to recreate parts of the iconic “Night Watch” painting that were snipped off 70 years after Rembrandt finished it.
The printed strips now hang flush to the edges of the 1642 painting in the museum’s Honor Gallery. Their addition restores to the work the off-center focal point that that rebellious Golden Age master Rembrandt originally intended.
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