Scientists Crack the Code of Rembrandt’s Golden Luster
Scientists say they have discovered the pigment that put the “Golden” in the Dutch Golden Age in Rembrandt’s paintings. New research into the paint Rembrandt used to represent glistening embroidery details in “The Night Watch” (1642) shows evidence of rarer arsenic sulfide mineral variants instead of orpiment, the more readily available pigment at the time. …
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