Chemists reveal how Rembrandt combined special pigments for golden details of ‘The Night Watch’
Cross section of paint sample SK-C-5_017 as seen through a light microscope. It shows various crystals of yellow, orange and red pigments of which the precise composition was established using a combination of electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray powder diffraction. Credit: Rijksmuseum. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for