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.
though the passage discusses about the painting attributed to rembrandt to be the work of another artist, the professor in the lecture provides an insight to the painting showcasing it with details that the work of art is by rembrandt but few alterations were made to increase the value of the painting.
Firstly, even though the painting depicts the lady wearing a white linen cap worn by servants, X-rays and analysis of the pigment of the colors used by rembrandt provides evidence to the fact that the painting was done by rembrandt. Hence, it has been proved that, the painter indeed has attention to details of his subject’s clothing.
Secondly, rembrandt lived in an era of light and shadow. In the original painting, the lady wore a light-colored cloth which reflects light thus illuminating the face. This statement is provided to contradict the findings that the dark fur collar below the face absorbs light rather than to reflect it.
Thirdly, to the original single piece of wood used by rembrandt, panels made of several pieces of wood were added to enlarge the portrait making it grander and more valued. The use of wood from the tree that was used for his previous work supports the theory.
To put it in a nutshell, the above facts can be reiterated that even though the painting was removed from the official catalog of rembrandt’s painting, clear facts and evidence supports its originality.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Though
though the passage discusses about the paintin...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...evidence supports its originality.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1213.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 239.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07531380753 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72032821016 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560669456067 0.540411800872 104% => OK
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: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.6413647607 49.2860985944 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.777777778 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5555555556 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
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: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234505129032 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867422622996 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0894603683128 0.0662205650399 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130222633727 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0772084788259 0.0443174109184 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.3589403974 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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