TPO 03 Integrated Writing Task 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 Rem

The article states that one of the paintings which attributes to Rembrandt is not for him. Rembrandt is a famous Dutch painter in seventeenth-century. The writer provides three reasons to support his idea. However, the professor explains that new researches prove that this painting is for Rembrandt. She refutes each of the author's reasons.

First of all, the reading explains that the dress of the woman who depicted in the picture is full of contradictions. The woman wore a cheap hat, but she wore an expensive coat. This incoherence is a reason that shows this picture is not for Rembrandt because he pays a lot of attentions to his paintings' details. The professor refutes this opinion by saying experts find that the expensive coat is not for the original picture, and someone added this to the photo a hundred years later.

Secondly, the article posits that one of the main Rembrandt's experts is depicting light and shadow. But in this painting this matter did not observe truly. However, the professor says that the original picture consist of the true shadows on the woman's face.
Third, the reading says that the wood panel of the picture is made from pieces of sticked woods. The Rembrandts' painting panels are not from a glued panel. The professor opposes this point by explaining that the wood panel was changed because they wanted to show it more valuable.