It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...

Historians have sniffed out a similar canine in an Adriaen van de Venne drawing. "Operation Night Watch" looks at the dog in Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch. Photo: by Kelly Schenk, ...

What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam It can ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” painting looks a little out of ...

When Rembrandt van Rijn unveiled The Night Watch in 1642, it was unlike anything audiences had seen before. While typical military portraits showed men in stationary poses, the Dutch artist’s painting ...

If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) painting looks a little out of place as the brave citizens of Amsterdam march out to defend the city—he is. New research into Rembrandt ...

A monumental masterpiece by Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is about to undergo a major conservation effort. The painting, The Blinding of Samson (1636), is one of the ...

The billionaire philanthropist, financier and collector Thomas S. Kaplan is in advanced discussions to fractionalise his Leiden Collection, the world’s largest private collection of Dutch Golden Age ...

Thomas Kaplan was just a kid when he had his first brush with Rembrandt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I was completely struck by the power of his painting,” he says. “I want to put that into ...

Netherlands Rembrandt Dog The 17th century drawing by Dutch artist Adriaen van de Venne which inspired Rembrandt when painting a dog in the Night Watch, is shown on an easel at the Rijksmuseum in ...