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Wildyoda's Sandbox
Feel free to play in it, but don't wreck my castles. I like them. And they are the wiki-equivilent of the doodle pages in my Western Civ. notes: Totally composed of random blobs, but if I lost them, I'd have no idea when the tests were. It may be indicipherable or silly to you, but I don't like digging it out of my history. Plus some of it's fun to look at.


 * Da ShOcKa114 (12:10:51 AM): i think this is worthy of a tirade
 * dannypeck1 (12:11:48 AM): I'm sure it's worthy of a tirade. But it'll have to wait. I've gotta take the little bro to school in the morning, so I'm hittin the sack.
 * dannypeck1 (12:12:00 AM): But please, feel free to have another beer for me.
 * Da ShOcKa114 (12:12:08 AM): touche indeed



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Night Watch Edit in Progress
Night Watch (also The Night Watch, De Nachtwacht, Patrouille de Nuit) is the common name of one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt, more properly titled the 'Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch'.

Title
It was not the practice to title paintings at the time the work was commissioned. It was mistakenly given the name by which it is referred today due to a dark varnish that covered the painting for much of its existence, and was removed only as recently as the 1940s. The varnish gave an incorrect impression of a night scene, augmented by dimming and defacing it had endured over time.

Although "night" may be innacurate, the The following description appears next to a drawing of "De Nachtwacht" in the family album of Banning Cocq: "De jonge heer van Purmerland als Capitein geeft last aan zijnen Lietenant de heer van Vlaerdingen om sijn compaignie Burgers te doen marcheren" (literally: "The young lord Van Purmerland as Captain gives order to his Lieutenant the lord Van Vlaerdingen to march his company Civilians.").

Fame
The painting is famous for three elements: its colossal size (see below), the effective use of light and shadow, and finally for the perception of motion in a traditionally military portrait scene. Like most of Rembrandt's works, it is best viewed from a distance.

History
This painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of Holland's golden age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch. With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt forces the eye onto the three most important characters among the crowd in the painting, the two gentlemen in the centre (from whom the painting gets its original title), and the small girl in the centre left background. Behind them the company's colours are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelisen.

A part of the painting on the left was also cut off during the 18th century so that the work could be moved into the room where in now resides at the Rijksmuseum. This large edit to the peice also removed three characters. A 17th century copy of the painting by Gerrit Lundens at the National Gallery, London shows how it looked originally.

It is said to have been commissioned by the Captain and 17 members of his civic militia guards (Kloveniers) and although 18 names appear on a shield in the centre right background, the drummer was hired, and so was allowed in the painting for free. A total of 34 characters appear in the painting, including Rembrandt himself. Rembrandt was paid 1,600 guilders for the painting (each person paid one hundred), a very large sum of money at the time. This was one of a series of seven similar paintings of the militiamen commissoned during that time under various artists.

The militiamen were also called Arquebusiers after the Arquebus, a sixteenth-century long-barrelled gun.

Rembrandt has displayed the traditional emblem of the Arquebusiers in the painting in a natural way: the girl in yellow dress in the foreground is carrying the main symbols. She is a kind of mascot in herself: the claws of a dead chicken on her belt represent the 'Clauweniers'- Arquebusiers; the pistol behind the chicken stands for 'clover'; and, she is holding the militia's goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf - a traditional motif of the Arquebusiers. The dead chicken is also meant to represent a defeated adversary. The colour yellow is often associated with victory.

It was first hung in the Arquebusier's hall the Kloveniersdoelen in Amsterdam in the 'Groote Zaal', Great Hall. This is now known as the Doelen Hotel. In 1715 it was moved to the Amsterdam town hall, for which it was altered. When Napoleon occupied the Netherlands, the town hall became the Palace on the Dam. The magistrates moved the painting to the Trippenhuis of the family Trip. Napoleon ordered it back, but after the occupation the painting was moved to the Trippenhuis again, which had now become the Rijksmuseum, and was moved to the new Rijksmuseum building when it was finished in 1885.

It is on display quite prominently in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is its most famous painting.

Size: 363 x 437 cm (11ft3in x 14ft4in).