Nienke conducted full restoration treatments and technical research on paintings by Colijn de Coter, Jan van Goyen, Aert de Gelder, George Hendrik Breitner and Fernand Khnopff. Lisette has worked on special projects for the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013, this included the stretching of two large scale wax-resin lined paintings, one being the largest free hanging painting in the Rijksmuseum: The Battle of Waterloo (J.W. The Rijksmuseum has launched the largest research and restoration project in its history on July 8, 2019: the restoration of The Night Watch. Rijksmuseum visitors will be invited to watch the restoration of The Night Watch, Rembrandt’s most celebrated masterpiece next year. He studied Art History at McMaster University and Queen’s University in Canada. Following a postgraduate internship at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge (MA), she has been working as a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum since 2004. She has published and lectured widely in this field and (co)organized many conferences. In total the robot will take more than 8400 photos at an extremely high resolution of 5 microme-tres, or five thousandths of a millimetre.The Night Watch is currently being photographed in daylight. Since 2007 she has been working as a paintings conservator at the Rijksmuseum. A cookie is a small text file which will be saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Having been trained as a gold- and silversmith, Robert was subsequently trained as a conservator at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. First, separate photos are taken, which are subsequently digitally assembled to form a single image. Her expertise lies in aging and degradation studies of pigments and oil paintings at the micro- and molecular level, especially related to pigment-binding medium interactions. Help us to preserve The Night Watch for future generations. Since 2009 he is Head of Fine and Decorative Arts of the Rijkmuseum.

This detailed study is necessary to determine the best treatment plan, and will involve imaging techniques, high-resolution photography and highly advanced computer analysis. The Night Watch first hung in the Groote Zaal (Great Hall) or Amsterdam's Kloveniersdoelen.This structure currently houses the Doelen Hotel. Carola is one of the initiators of the Manual photographing 3D objects for the Rijksmuseum that was published during 2and3D Photography conference, Amsterdam (2017). She coordinated the research project ‘Matthijs Maris at Work’, and the accompanying book publication. He is currently involved in the scientific research of the Night Watch, where he is responsible for the scientific data infrastructure and computational imaging.Annelies van Loon is Paintings research scientist at the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis. In the frame work of the of the Late Rembrandt exhibition in 2015 she performed research into the painting technique of Rembrandt’s late works and contributed to the catalogue essay on the artist’s experimental technique. It may have been called the Night Watch because of the composition and lighting, which were extremely unusual at the time of its painting (about 1642) and which may have been misunderstood. Since 2019 Lisette is involved as an active participant in several grant projects within the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Canvas Initiative, which aims to pass on and expand knowledge and practical skills for the structural treatment of canvas paintings. "Consequently, to ensure it is possible to maintain a minimum physical distance of 1.5 meters, no more than two people will work on the painting at any given time," the museum said.Early restoration work on The Night Watch is scheduled to resume again on Wednesday, the museum added. "The Operation Night Watch research team use the very latest technologies and continually push the boundaries of what was thought possible. This will ensure that the painting can remain on display for museum visitors. During this time he developed the metals conservation training program now being taught at the University of Amsterdam.