Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. However, there are doubts whether some paintings attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by him. One such painting is known as attributed to Rembrandt because of its style, and indeed the representation of the woman’s face is very much like that of portraits known to be by Rembrandt. But there are problems with the painting that suggest it could not be a work by Rembrandt.
First, there is something inconsistent about the way the woman in the portrait is dressed. She is wearing a white linen cap of a kind that only servants would wear-yet the coat she is wearing has a luxurious fur collar that no servant could afford. Rembrandt, who was known for his attention to the details of his subjects’ clothing, would not have been guilty of such an inconsistency.
Second, Rembrandt was a master of painting light and shadow, but in this painting these elements do not fit together. The face appears to be illuminated by light reflected onto it from below. But below the face is the dark fur collar, which would absorb light rather than reflect it. So the face should appear partially in shadow-which is not how it appears. Rembrandt would never have made such an error.
Finally, examination of the back of the painting reveals that it was painted on a panel made of several pieces of wood glued together. Although Rembrandt often painted on wood panels, no painting known to be by Rembrandt uses a panel glued together in this way from several pieces of wood.
Questions:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Both the lecture and the author focus on Rembrandt's paintings, but express opposing viewpoints. Whereas the author mentions that there are some reasons with his work that suggest he did not paint by himself, the professor strongly disagree with that statement for several reasons
To begin with, according to the text, the writer states that there is something inconsistent about the way the women in the portrait is dressed. She is wearing a valuable fur collar that servant can not afford. On the contrary, the speaker said that that painting is not original. From research, They found that the portrait was painted by someone around 100 years later.
In addition, based on the passage, Rembrandt was expert in painting light and shadow, but in this painting these elements do not match together. On the other hand, the professor states that the original portraits use simple color. The face of women was very relaxed, and look realistic
Lastly, the reading mentions that Rembrandt usually painted on wood panels. In contrast, based on the speaker, he saids that the research found that he used wood from the same tree.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, lastly, look, so, whereas, in addition, in contrast, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 951.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 187.0 270.72406181 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08556149733 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38755531294 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.614973262032 0.540411800872 114% => OK
syllable_count: 266.4 419.366225166 64% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.877555048 49.2860985944 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.666666667 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7777777778 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.8888888889 7.06452816374 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184694855694 0.272083759551 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753742134888 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672229160189 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108726633263 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0210325488014 0.0443174109184 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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