Protestors called the work "a grotesque insult to God."

There is only one other condom like it known to experts.

On Tuesday, a team of eight restorers started removing the varnish from the painting following years of high-tech research.

Dutch police said they arrested 33 protestors who had chained themselves to a fence by the museum's entrance.

It was stolen for the third time in 2020.

Though Rembrandt didn't shy away from experimentation, the use of a lead-based layer has never been seen before among his works or those of his contemporaries.

Six of the objects, coming from the Rijksmuseum, mark the institution's first repatriation of colonial artifacts.

Last year, the painting was acquired with aid from the government for €175 million ($191.3 million).

The sold-out show featured 28 works by the Dutch painter.

The retired curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington compares his Vermeer exhibition with the current one in Amsterdam.