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The Night Watch - Rembrandt

The Night Watch, 1642

Oil on canvas, 363 x 437 cm

Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum

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is a common task for a short stop is Rambrandt, recapitulation of the path and at the same time a new march forward. For the art world is the highest level: extreme virtuosity, only the execution of the details, fabrics, accessories and lighting effects-metals and quinésica of the characters are, in a sense high art. Formally, the work represents the moment when the young lord of Purmerlandt, serving as captain, orders his lieutenant, Mr. von Vlaerdingen, to train their civic guard company. The work was intended to hang together with six other paintings of other artists with the same subject in the ballroom Cloveniers shooters society. Later to hang the work in a small room in a hall in the early eighteenth had to reduce the size of the picture. The name "Night Watch" emerged in the early nineteenth century due to dirt and oxidation of the varnish that contained, it was decrepit and dark, after restoration work in 1947 we know that in reality it was a daytime scene.

Following his style, Rembrandt gives greater importance to the development of the action to the more formal in comparison with reality, we know that some of the sitters did not appear to be as expected. As the captain action appears to medium lift arm and open mouth while walking beside the lieutenant obeys the order. Behind all the company, left and right are talking more figures, under the dome raising the standard-bearer, swords and spears being sorted, a mosquito carrying his weapon, a boy with a helmet too big for him, turns around while running with a horn of powder in his hands empty, behind an old lieutenant blows the powder from the bowl, and next, between the captain and the lieutenant is a man who has just fire his musket, to the right of the picture a drummer scares a dog with his instrument, a woman, dressed in gold takes a hen and a belt pouch and a glass rustic hand behind it senses the figure of another woman. After this description we can easily realize that this time premium, the movement ultimately action. And the variety is superb, both equity and speed of them. The moment depicted is a second lieutenant before the company notifies the captain's orders to form, this gives us even greater dynamic effect and enhances the entropy of the action.

Light is a turning point in Rembrandt and in this picture, again, again a masterful look of pure genius. The shadows are not going in one direction, the lighting is not as full scene, but it is selective in intensity and quality, but the central point of the table where the captain and the lieutenant enhances the sense of uniform illumination to be projected the shadow of the captain's hand on lieutenant, and gives intensity and realism to the scene. In fact it seems so real that it becomes one part for the whole picture in terms of lighting. The female figures are illuminated in a special way, so that seems to derive their own light, they are wrapped in such mystery and the possibility of producing light. They look like girls but their clothes are women, and consistent with the colors of the flag, and also carry symbols. Allegorical figures might be typical of the baroque, but it remains a mystery. A truly beautiful and fascinating evening.