The Night Watch - The Rembrandt That Got "Trimmed" (Masterpiece Moment)
In 1715, Amsterdam officials faced a decorating dilemma: Rembrandt’s monumental masterpiece The Night Watch didn’t fit between two doors. Their solution? Cut it down to size. In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, James explores how Rembrandt transformed a conventional militia portrait into a scene bursting with light, movement, muskets, and one mysteriously glowing girl—only for later generations to trim away figures, architecture, and nearly two feet of canvas. Disc...
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