New hi-tech photo brings Rembrandt’s Night Watch up close

Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting The Night Watch is now also a supersized museum photo (Peter Dejong/AP)

Rembrandt van Rijn’s iconic and huge painting The Night Watch is now also a supersized museum photo delivered right to your laptop in unsurpassed detail.

The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum on Monday put on its digital portal what it called “the most detailed photograph of any artwork” ready for assessment by scientists and art lovers alike.