Rembrandt van Rijn - The Swijgh Utrecht Tower in Amsterdam

The Arquebusiers, who commissioned Rembrandt’s Night Watch, assembled in the two structures at the left in this drawing. The Night Watch hung in the leftmost modern building of the complex from 1642. The nearby medieval city wall tower had a tall pointed roof in Rembrandt’s time. Rembrandt omitted it to showcase the original architecture. He used such old round towers as scenery in his history scenes.