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.
The reading states that, some of the paintings of the most famous seventeenth century painter Rembrandt casts doubts. Because of Rembrandt's well known style and representation of woman's face one painting seems to belong to him but has some issues. However, the lecturer denies the articles claims by clarifying all the doubts and reclaims that it is the painting of Rembrandt.
Firstly, the article explains that the woman's dress seems to be inconsistent. She is wearing a cap that only servants wear but the coat she is wearing is not affordable to servants and Rembrandt shouldn't make such mistakes. The lecturer opposes the claims by saying that the fur collar of the coat the woman wearing is made by repainting by some other painter 100 years later of the original painting. The repainting is done to add value to the original Rembrandt's painting.
Secondly, the reading says that Rembrandt's mastery in painting light and shadow is missing in the painting. The professor defend the claim by stating that the light of the woman's clothing was much lighter in the original painting. So the face of the woman was brighter and not in shadow. The repainting destroyed the balancing and style of Rembrandt's original colors.
Moreover, the article poses that Rembrandt typically used only one piece of wood in his paintings but in this painting several pieces was glued together. The lecturer explained it by saying that the original painting was done on one single wood.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well
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 : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1233.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 245.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03265306122 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6201220519 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489795918367 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.1718594216 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8461538462 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8461538462 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38461538462 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346675303459 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132701004875 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115057365072 0.0662205650399 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.231769934008 0.162205337803 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.165171095476 0.0443174109184 373% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 63.6247240618 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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