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.
According to the passage, one of the painting of Rembrandt was removed from the catalog in 1930s because of the inconsistency in its style, technique, and the glued wood. However, the professor of the lecture refute this idea.
First of all, the article claims that it is unlikely for Rembrandt, a cautious artist, to miss the details of the woman being portrait. However, the lecturer proposes an explanation to this: recently, after X ray examination, it reveals that it was actually another painter who added those extra and inconsistent elements e.g a luxurious fur to make it look more decent 100 years later.
Secondly, the passage suggests the idea that the partially shadow face is another evidence showing that this is not the work of Rembrandt. Nonetheless, the lecturer refutes the point by stating that it is the extra layer painted by another painter results in the inconsistency. After removing the extra layer, the original color used on the painting perfectly illuminates the women's face.
Lastly, the article mentions that the glued and wooden panel makes it unlikely to be a work of Rembrandt. This point of view is opposed by the lecturer. She further explains that it is assembled by another painter as well. Furthermore, the original wood panel matches exactly to the other wooden panel used by Rembrandt to portrait himself.
In summary, the lecturer concludes that this piece of work is indeed painted by Rembrandt.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 89, Rule ID: IN_1990s[1]
Message: The article is probably missing here: 'in the 1930s'.
Suggestion: in the 1930s
... Rembrandt was removed from the catalog in 1930s because of the inconsistency in its sty...
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Line 5, column 208, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: X-ray
...an explanation to this: recently, after X ray examination, it reveals that it was act...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, furthermore, however, lastly, look, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, well, in summary, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1221.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 238.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13025210084 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71688937744 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.558823529412 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 371.7 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0604346215 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.75 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.83333333333 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211574548967 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.077502745892 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691787333018 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136401500006 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645648168165 0.0443174109184 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.