The document discusses Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" and analyzes some of its key features, including the use of chiaroscuro technique, the realistic depiction of costumes, and prominent figures like Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburgh. It also notes the inclusion of an unknown young girl painted in bright colors and a shield in the background bearing the names of the soldiers depicted.

2. Predominance of color over the
painting

3. Chiaroscuro’s technique

4. Complex composition
The background is full of people. They were painted
without any simmetry, in natural postures and
representing movements.

5. Frans Banning Cocq’s hand
Captain Frans Banning Cocq‘s hand was painted very
clearly. It seems to be going out the canvas.

6. Willem van Ruytenburgh
Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburgh was painted in bright
colors. Rembrandt painted his clothes very realistic and
full of details.

7. The little girl
In the middle of the people there is an unknown little
girl, who has nothing to do with the rest of the people.
She is painted in bright colors and gives a lot of lights to
the work. It is said that she could be Rembrandt’s wife
Saskia, who died young.

8. The shield
There’s a curious feature in the background of the
painting. There’s a dark shield. It contains the names of
every soldier painted.