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Unique Pigments Discovered: Chemists Unveil New Secrets of Rembrandt’s Famous Painting “The Night Watch”


Researchers have discovered that Rembrandt used special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint in "The Night Watch." Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have, for the first time, determined how Rembrandt used special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘g

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