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 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 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.
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The writer starts the passage by introducing art, assuming several doubts that, yet it was painted by the famous painter Rembrandt. The professor provides three reasons that contradict the writer's point
The author says white linen cap and the luxurious fur color coat make the portrait inconsistent., perhaps, it was not portraited by Rembrandt. Still, the lecturer shows a reference of X-ray analysis of the painting, which that reveals the fur color was not original, increasing its value is the reason for adding this extra color later.
The writer believes one of the main characteristics of Rembrandt's painting is a mixture of light, and shadow, which was absent in the portrait proves it was someone else who created this. However, this idea is rejected by the speaker also. The women wear a simple light collar dress that was reflected in women's faces.
According to the passage, it is uncommon that Rambrandth painted on wood panels connected by glue. However, the lecturer suggests evidence revealing that the painter was Rembrandt. He says, to enhance the value of the painting, many pieces of connected wood panels were used; again, those wood panels came from the same tree that wood previously used by Rembrandt.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ns that contradict the writers point The author says white linen cap and the lux...
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Line 6, column 236, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...r, this idea is rejected by the speaker also. The women wear a simple light collar d...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... that was reflected in womens faces. According to the passage, it is uncommon...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, so, still
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 : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => 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: 1039.0 1373.03311258 76% => OK
No of words: 201.0 270.72406181 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16915422886 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76529505866 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60346884911 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.611940298507 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 303.3 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2887423496 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.444444444 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.66666666667 7.06452816374 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179242180974 0.272083759551 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757601274577 0.0996497079465 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0683582718338 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106981813547 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0357796403448 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 63.6247240618 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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