Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. However, there are doubts about whether some painters attributed to Rembrandt were actually. painted by him. One such painting is known as Portrait of Elderly Women in a White Bonner. The painting was attributed to Rembrandt because of its style, and indeed the representation of the women's face is very much like that of portraits known to be by Rembrandt. But there are problems with the painting that suggests it could to 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 master of a painting of light and shadows, 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 dark fur collar., which would absorb the light instead of reflecting it. So the face should appear partially in shadow which is not how it appears. Rembrandt would never have made such an error.
Third, an examination of the back of the painting reveals that it was painted on the 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 painting in the 1930s.
The article states that Rembrandt us the most famous painter of the seventeenth-century in Dutch. However, there is a doubt about one painting that the weather is painted by Rembrandt. That painting is known as Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet. On the other side, the lecturer states that this painting is originally painted by Rembrandt and gives three reasons to support that idea.
First, the reading passage claims that a woman in the portrait is wearing a white linen cap that only servants would wear, but the coat she is wearing is luxurious and a servant would not be able to afford that kind of costly coat. The author believes that Rembrandt would pay attention to this kind of detail in his painting. On contrary, professor refutes this point because when X-ray was taken of this painting it suggested that fur in this painting drawn 100 years after the painting was done. It means the painting originally was drawn by the Rembrandt.
Second, the author points out that Rembrandt was a master in painting the light and shadows, but in this painting, the face appears to be reflects illuminated by the light which reflects from the below. However, the professor explained that fur was painted after the painting was done that why the face lighting does not appear correct. When painting originally painted without the coat by Rembrandt that time face shadow appears correct.
Third, the reading passage says that painting was done on the woods pieces which were glued together. And Rembrandt never used that type wood pieces which were glued together, he always used the one wood piece for his painting. The professor opposes this point by explaining that when researchers examine the wood piece, they find out that it was from the same tree when Rembrandt use the wood pieces in one of the self-portraits. The professor also explained that when fur was painted that time extra wood piece was glued to expand the painting and increase the price of the painting.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 338, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... face lighting does not appear correct. When painting originally painted without the...
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Line 13, column 382, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Rembrandt) must be used with a third-person verb: 'uses'.
Suggestion: uses
...t was from the same tree when Rembrandt use the wood pieces in one of the self-port...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, third, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 28.0 12.0772626932 232% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => 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: 1665.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 339.0 270.72406181 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91150442478 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48258086853 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442477876106 0.540411800872 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 474.3 419.366225166 113% => 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: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7020455649 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.0 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.53333333333 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300420362232 0.272083759551 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141974073498 0.0996497079465 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104098339018 0.0662205650399 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222552275368 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.159088427068 0.0443174109184 359% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 53.8541721854 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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