TORONTO (CTV Network) — In the process of conserving a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Rembrandt, scientists have isolated an unexpected chemical within the paint, shedding light on some of the ...

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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 ...

Amidst his palette of reds and browns, Rembrandt used wheat, according to a new state-of-the-art analysis of two of his works. It is the first study to identify wheat starch in any of Rembrandt's work ...

A new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna offers viewers the rare chance to see the work of the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn in conversation with his student Samuel van Hoogstraten ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Copied images are so pervasive in the modern world that we can easily forget there was a time when they were rarities and objects of wonder. But centuries before the invention of ...

Rembrandt may have traced his celebrated self-portraits from optical projections created by assemblies of mirrors or lenses, a new analysis suggests. Two U.K.-based researchers -- Francis O'Neill, an ...

A collection of 58 works is making their U.S. debut in "Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White — Prints from the ...

Youth inevitably gives way to age, but the blow was particularly sudden and stark for a young man whose portrait Rembrandt painted almost 400 years ago. For reasons unknown, the great artist ...