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.
Both the passage and the lecture discuss about one of the painting known as " Portrait of an elderly woman in a white Bonnet". The passage claims that painting is not done by the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt giving three different reasons. On the other hand,the lecturer opposes all the claims about the debated painting being painted by Rembrandt casting following aspersions.
Firstly, the passage advocate that there is inconsistency in the clothing details of the woman in the painting.She is wearing white linen cap and luxurious fur coat. In contrast, as per lecture fur collar is overlapped with pigmentation to make it look more new and fresh.
Secondly, according to the reading passage the painting lacks basic elements of light and shadow , Rembrandt is what master of ; as the face appears illuminated by light reflcted onto it and below dark fur collar absorbs the face. Conversely, the lecture believes that due to overlapping of pigmentation the colour of fur got darker, in original painting it seems realistic with light and shadow element being taken care of.
Lastly, as per read, panel used to for painting is made of several pieces of wood glued together, which dismiss the claim of painting being painted by Rembrandt. As oppose to this , verbal content claims that several pieces of wood used are taken from same tree to make painting look more grand and big.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, first, firstly, if, lastly, look, second, secondly, so, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => 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: 1170.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06493506494 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59798131313 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575757575758 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 350.1 419.366225166 83% => 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: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => 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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.9998331661 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.0 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8888888889 7.06452816374 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297568425051 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131167832532 0.0996497079465 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0962831241885 0.0662205650399 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169275606499 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.129802633698 0.0443174109184 293% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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