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Nightwatching. Nightwatching is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting The Night Watch. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as his other lover Hendrickje ...
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Nov 2, 2007 · Nightwatching: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May. An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.
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Nightwatching R 2007 2h 14m Biography History Drama Mystery & Thriller List 75% 20 Reviews Tomatometer 62% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Rembrandt van Rijn's professional and romantic life.
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Feb 26, 2010 · Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway's lush tale about the painter's great work, The Night Watch. Greenaway creates a drama that is an examin...
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Commission
The painting was commissioned around 1639 by Captain Banninck Cocq and seventeen members of his Kloveniers (civic militia guards). 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. 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. This was one of a series of seven similar paintings of the militi...
Location and alterations
The Night Watch first hung in the Groote Zaal (Great Hall) of Amsterdam's Kloveniersdoelen. This structure currently houses the Doelen Hotel. In 1715, the painting was moved to the Amsterdam Town Hall, for which it was trimmed on all four sides. This was done, presumably, to fit the painting between two columns and was a common practice before the 19th century. This alteration resulted in the loss of two characters on the left side of the painting, the top of the arch, the balustrade, and the...
Vandalism and restoration
For much of its existence, the painting was coated with a dark varnish, which gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene, leading to the name by which it is now commonly known. On 13 January 1911, a jobless shoemaker and former Navy chef attempted to slash the painting with a shoemaker's knife protesting his inability to find work. However, the thick coating of varnish protected the painting from any damage at that time.The varnish was removed only in the 1940s. On 14 Septem...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty refers to this work in his 1961 essay "Eye and Mind". He writes that "[t]he spatiality of the captain lies at the meeting of two lines of sight that are incompossible with one...The work has inspired musical works in both the classical and rock traditions, including the second movement of Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony and Ayreon's "The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. C...Alexander Korda's 1936 biographical film Rembrandtdepicts the painting, shown in error in its truncated form, as a failure at its completion, perceived as lampooning its outraged subjects.In Jean-Luc Godard's 1982 film Passion, The Night Watchis reenacted with live actors in an opening shot. Godard explicitly compares his film to Rembrandt's painting, describing them both as "full o...Bikker, Jonathan (2013). The Night Watch. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum. ISBN 978-90-71450-86-0.Müller, Jürgen (2015). Der sokratische Künstler. Studien zu Rembrandts Nachtwache. Leiden: Brill. pp. 226–308. ISBN 978-90-04-28525-5.rijksmuseum.nl The Night Watchin ultra high-resolution (717 gigapixsels)The Night Watchin high-resolution – Google Art ProjectThe Night WatchAnalysis- 363 cm × 437 cm (142.9 in × 172.0 in)
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- 1642
Mar 25, 2010 · Nightwatching. Peter Greenaway's latest – a meditation on Rembrandt's Night Watch masterpiece – is an affecting, challenging treatment of its theme, writes Peter Bradshaw. Peter Bradshaw. Thu ...
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