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Re: BIG
Ok I have to jump in her, as a dutchman: the museum is known as Het
Rijksmuseum, the Rembrandt painting is called "De Nachtwacht", it indeed
used to be larger, but they cut of some 50 cm (I believe) from each
side, because it didn't fit that nice on the wall, and the transport was
easier. In later times they just took it from the wall, and rolled it
up, tugged it away on a ceiling. The people who commissioned Rembrandt
for the painting, de schutterij van Amsterdam, a kind of city guards,
more a social than a army thing I believe, weren't all too happy when
Rembrandt showed them the finished piece; too dark and gloomy, too many
"un-important" people on it
Cor
Ender100@aol.com wrote:
>
> I remember the first time I went to the Reijkmuseum (sp) in Amsterdam.... as
> a little boy I remember those images on my grandfather's cigar boxes...wow!
> they were a LOT bigger! (chuckle)
>
> Mark Nelson
>
> In a message dated 10/7/00 7:20:30 AM, lukas.werth@rz.hu-berlin.de writes:
>
> << I remember having seen Rembrandt's 'Nightwatch' in Amsterdam, a huge
> picture, and a beautiful one - I don't remember wether it was under glass:
> a part of this picture was actually, if I remember correctly, CUT AWAY in
> some bygone century to make it fit on a certain wall.
> Here in Berlin we have 'the man with the golden helmet' - or however it is
> called in English: it is not all that big, and its authorship is contested
> nowadays, but all this does not make it less beautifull. >>