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?
The lecture and the reading are both about the painting 'Portrait of an Elderly Women in a White Bonnet'.The author of reading believes the painting was not Rembrandt's work.The lecturer challenges the statement made by the author.She is of the opinion that the painting,indeed, is the made by Rembrandt.
Firstly, the author states that there is some inconsistency with the clothing of women in the painting It is mentioned that she is wearing a white linen cap of a kind that only servants would wear,yet she the coat she is wearing has a fur collar that not servant could afford. The argument is challenged by the lecture. She says that the fur collar was not the part of the original painting and someone else later added fur collar to make the painting more valuable.
Secondly, the writer contends that the elements of light and color don not fit together. The article notes that below the face of the women there is a dark fur collar and this would absorb light rather than reflect it and would make the face partially appear in shadow but the face appears to be illuminated by the light. The lecturer however rebuts this by asserting that as the fur collar was added latter, initial below the face of the woman in the original painting there was a light colored cloth thus making the face of the woman in the painting to be illuminated.
Finally, it is stated that the painting was painted on a panel made of several pieces of wood glued together. The author establishes that Rembrandt's paintings were painted on wood panels that were not glued together. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that extra wood were added so that the fur collar could be adjusted in the painting and initially the painting did not have wood panels glued together. She further mentions that the wood used for this painting was from the same tree that Rembrandt used for his previous painting in which he painted a self portrait with hat.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 10.4613686534 210% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => 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: 1589.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 339.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.68731563422 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44526937797 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439528023599 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.8397154635 49.2860985944 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.454545455 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.8181818182 21.698381199 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 4.19205298013 215% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.232528912062 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107049857756 0.0996497079465 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0904556853668 0.0662205650399 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142948647653 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0830437494412 0.0443174109184 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.95 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 26.5 10.7273730684 247% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 27.0 11.2008830022 241% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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