The hidden, teeming world of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'


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The idea behind 'The Night Watch Lives' exhibit is to spark people's curiosity about microbes, the life teeming all around humans. Photo: AFP

For years, millions of people have marvelled at Rembrandt's use of light and shadows to depict the militia in his masterpiece, The Night Watch.

Little did they know they were also looking at a hidden world of characters, some of them from as far away as Japan.

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