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 inthe 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. For these reasons the painting was removed from the official catalog of Rembrandt’s paintings in the 1930s.
It may appear logical, at first glance, to agree with the reading passage that this painting was painted by someone else. The professor, however, argues that despite these supporting reasons in the reading are true, a new finding made by scientists can render that statement uneffective and unreliable. She points out that this painting proves to be one of Rembrandt's works.
In the first place, the reading states that there exists some inconsistence about the dress the women in the painting wears. Nevertheless, the professor offers some alternative explanations for that. She says that the inconsistent color was actually painted by someone else. After about 100 years when the painting was finished, someboday, rather than Rembrandt himself, added this on the originally painting and wished to add value to the painting. That is why the way the women dressed seems strange for us.
In the second place, the professor argues that the reason why the light and shadow do not fit each other is due to the fact that someone have modified the painting, too. According to the professor, in the priginal painting the collar was painted in a way that could reflect light. Therefore, it is quite reasonable for the women's face appear to be illuminated.
In the third place, the reading suggests that none of Rembrandt's painting, except this one, was found made of several wood panels. However, the professor also states that it is someone else wishing to add the value of the painting that add these extra panels. She even offers other evidence supporting that the painting was indeed painted by Rembrandt. That is, the original wood piece was found made from the same tree that other painting of Rembrandt painted. Thus, it seem clear that this painting is Rembrandt's work.
For the above reasons, the professor insists that the painting was made by Rembrandt.
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- 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 86
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 472, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'seems'?
Suggestion: seems
...painting of Rembrandt painted. Thus, it seem clear that this painting is Rembrandts ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nevertheless', 'second', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'thus', 'in the first place', 'in the second place', 'in the third place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21325648415 0.261695866417 81% => OK
Verbs: 0.184438040346 0.158904122519 116% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0720461095101 0.0723426182421 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0489913544669 0.0435111971325 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0259365994236 0.0277247811725 94% => OK
Prepositions: 0.126801152738 0.128828473217 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0518731988473 0.0370669169778 140% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.53327165043 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0230547550432 0.0208969081088 110% => OK
Particles: 0.0028818443804 0.00154638098197 186% => OK
Determiners: 0.149855907781 0.128158765124 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00864553314121 0.0158828679856 54% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.014409221902 0.0114777025283 126% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1868.0 1645.83664459 113% => OK
No of words: 309.0 271.125827815 114% => OK
Chars per words: 6.04530744337 6.08160592843 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04852973271 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.352750809061 0.374372842146 94% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.265372168285 0.287516216867 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.184466019417 0.187439937562 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.11003236246 0.113142543107 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53327165043 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498381877023 0.539623497131 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 50.0142920247 53.8517498576 93% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0529801325 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.1764705882 21.7502111507 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.112653994 49.3711431718 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.882352941 132.220823453 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1764705882 21.7502111507 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.882352941176 0.878197800319 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.39072847682 29% => OK
Readability: 44.7136874167 50.5018328374 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.51111111111 1.90840788429 79% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311938057755 0.549887131256 57% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108941468806 0.142949733639 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0896216528047 0.0787303798458 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.627958456118 0.631733273073 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162681889893 0.139662658121 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151667673818 0.266732575781 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0488672098635 0.103435571967 47% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.522542465305 0.414875509568 126% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0856319741421 0.0530846634433 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231936304979 0.40443939384 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349949105092 0.0528353158467 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.26048565121 188% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 3.1766004415 252% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 10.2958057395 155% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.