# Rembrandt's The Night Watch -- The Director's Cut

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**Created:** [June 24, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rembrandts-the-night-watch-the-directors-cut/944951 "2021-06-24T15:12:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rembrandts-the-night-watch-the-directors-cut/944951/1 "2021-06-24T15:12:17Z")

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> For the first time in 300 years, Rembrandt’s famed “[The Night Watch](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/rembrandt-the-night-watch-online-scli-intl/index.html)” is back on display in what researchers say is its original size, with missing parts temporarily restored in an exhibition aided by artificial intelligence.
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> Rembrandt finished the large canvas, which portrays the captain of an Amsterdam city militia ordering his men into action, in 1642.
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> Although it is now considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, strips were cut from all four sides of it during a move in 1715.
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> Though those strips have not been found, another artist of the time had made a copy, and restorers and computer scientists have used that, blended with Rembrandt’s style, to recreate the missing parts.

[https://www.cnn.com/style/article/rembrandt-night-watch-ai-restoration/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/rembrandt-night-watch-ai-restoration/index.html)

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
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But the also deep-faked the faces of the two guys in the foreground with Hall & Oates’