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© Massimo Listri, Palazzo Martelli, Firenze, 2008
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© Massimo Listri, Palazzo Martelli, Firenze, 2008
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Last week, from May 20-26, the IDF coordinated the transfer of 1,227 trucks with 32,741 tons of goods and gas into the Gaza Strip.
Flinck, Govert Teunisz - Angels Announcing the Birth of Christ to the Shepherds
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Rembrandt, The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq, 1642
Oil on canvas, 363 cm × 437 cm (142.9 in × 172.0 in), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch. It is on prominent display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, being the best known painting in their collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings in the world.
The painting is renowned for three elements: its colossal size (363 x 437 cm ~ 11 ft 10in x 14 ft 4in), the effective use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro), and the perception of motion in what would have been, traditionally, a static military portrait.
Rembrandt, The Polish Rider – Possibly a Lisowczyk on horseback. The subject is of much discussion. It is possible that the person depicted was Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński (1632–1690).
