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Night Watch
Night Watch or The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon 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...
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Filter this CollectionFrans Banning Cocq
Knight Frans Banning Cocq (1600–1655?) was a burgemeester (mayor) of Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. He is best known as the central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch.
Cocq was the only son of an Amsterdam pharmacist. He studied...
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Schutterij
A Schutterij (plural - Schutterijen), literally "shootery" (Schützenbruderschaft in German) was a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case...