The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently finished restoring missing pieces of Rembrandt's oil painting 'The Night Watch' with the help of AI.
. The original piece is nearly 15 feet long and more than 12 feet high and has been under intensive restoration since the early 1900s., in the 1600s Rembrandt was commissioned by the Amsterdam civic guard to create a sweeping oil painting for their headquarters. The Dutch portraitist constructed a scene with the city’s mayor and his lieutenant—plus 32 other characters, including a dressed-up young lass. The piece is thought to have been completed in 1642, and was moved to the town hall in 1715.
Lucky for art appreciators today, the city commissioned another local painter to draw a smaller reference for the “Night Watch” prior to the hack job. The restoration scientists at Rijksmuseum tapped a form of AI known as neural networks to scale the missing elements from the copy to the original. Another set of algorithms helped them matchGerrit Lundens’s reference copy of “The Night Watch” next to the chopped-down version of Rembrandt’s original.
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