The painting is made up of a group of portraits, depicting the People's Army of Captain Frank Bing Coco and Lieutenant William van Ritterberg (located in the center).
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It's commonly called The Night Watch. The Wikipedia article in English (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch) gives two alternative names that are more precise. People like to name things, although paintings generally communicate by means of visual language, so many titles found in art history studies are just conventional labels, used to refer to specific works, assigned by scholars, curators, critics, and collectors. Sometimes the titles of pictures are misleading, as may be the case of The Night Watch, which had darker colors before layers of old varnish were removed during restoration. In more recent centuries, many artists have taken to naming their works, while others refuse to do so, preferring to keep the intersubjective sharing of experience on a visual, nonverbal level.
the night watch painted in 1642
an animation was made and shot in a shopping center
you can see the video in this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0zLdHZMuQ
http://historylists.org/art/list-of-10-most-famous-rembrandts-paintings.html
yes "night watch" is the one almost every one (art student) knows about.
There are 2 kinds of paintings:
The ordinary & The Famous
Paintings are famous because they are famous - otherwise they would be ordinary paintings.
Ordinary paintings never can become famous - and if they exceptionally do - they seize to be ordinary paintings and become "Famous paintings" also..
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, De Staalmeesters are the other famous paintings.
The Nght Watch, of course, em português A Ronda da Noite. A treasure of the Dutch painting: I am thinking about the care the Dutch citizens had during Second World War, to hide the painting of the Nazis.
Official title is 'The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch' (Dutch: Schutters van Wijk II onder kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch), but popularly known as 'The Night Watch' (Dutch: De Nachtwacht).
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Year: 1642
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 363 cm × 437 cm (142.9 in × 172.0 in)
Location: Amsterdam Museum on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Website: https://hart.amsterdam/nl/collectie/object/amcollect/38543
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