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.
The reading states that a painting which is known as "Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet" does not attribute to Rembrant and brings three reasons to support that. The lecture, however, finds the idea dubious and casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading passage.
The author argues that due to the Rembrant's painstaking attention to details, this painting is not acceptable as a work of him because of some inhormoney in dressing style. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that using fur collar was for the pirpose of increasing the vsalue of painting and the x-ray observation shows that some covering has been done to preserve that kind of painting, so it is accepted to be Rembrant's work.
Furthermore, the readin passage holds the view that space of shadow and light that do not match with each others help us to find that is does not conribute to Rembrant. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that these color are the result of covering the original painting and the original light and color are realistic. As a result this painting can be considered as a work of Rembrant.
Finally, the readinhg asserts that the material on which this painting has been painted, is different from his other paintings and consists of different piece of wood glued together. In contrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that the wood panel used for this painting is fro the similar tree of other panels he used, but for some aspect such as being valuable and grand, it have been enlarged by gluing different pieces.
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...ight that do not match with each others help us to find that is does not conribute to Rembrant....
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...he wood panel used for this painting is fro the similar tree of other panels he use...
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Message: Did you mean 'has'?
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...ct such as being valuable and grand, it have been enlarged by gluing different piece...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, as for, in contrast, kind of, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1307.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 271.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82287822878 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58668165118 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549815498155 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => 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: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.6477242146 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.222222222 110.228320801 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1111111111 21.698381199 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.6666666667 7.06452816374 193% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => 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: 0.212228591936 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885809913064 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648706999376 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124814233371 0.162205337803 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457257748754 0.0443174109184 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.95 53.8541721854 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.