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 Portrait of an Elderly Woman in
a White Bonnet. The painting was 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 wearyet
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 shadowwhich
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.
For these reasons the painting was removed from the official catalog of Rembrandt's
paintings in the 1930s.
The professor completely repudiates the information given in the passage. The passage claims that Portrait of an Elderly woman in White Bonnet was not the work of Rembrandt based on inconsistency in dressing, the use of light and shadow and the panel of wood pieces. However, the lecture presents specific reasonings to debunk all of the inferences drawn in the passage.
Firstly, the assertion of the passage that inconsistency of the dressing doesn't accord with the meticulous painting of the Rembrandt is refuted by revealing the information that the fur color was added hundred of years later the original painting was produced. The professor avers that somebody added the color later with an intention to represent the lady as an appealing aristocrat so as to increase the value of the painting.
Secondly, the lecture addresses the problem with light and shadow. Based on information obtained from re-examination, the professor reveals that when the fur color was removed the original painting in light color was revealed. This illuminated the face from below.
Thirdly, the professor states that the original painting was produced in the single wood panel. The extra pieces were added later to make the painting appear larger. In addition, the wood panel of the original painting was found to be obtained from the same tree as the wood panel in which self-portrait with the hat was painted by Rembrandt.
Therefore, providing information and logical evidence from the re-examination of the painting, the professor debunks any plausible misconception that the portrait of the elderly lady wasn't painted by Rembrandt. Moreover, she asserts that with an intention to make the painting more grand and valuable, probably to make it more expensive, the further manipulation (in the fur color and wood panel) was done in the painting.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1546.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2406779661 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85419702858 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454237288136 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 477.9 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.23620309051 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.8861082684 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.923076923 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179627225593 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675266680095 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570259908657 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110300570147 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433880881764 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 63.6247240618 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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