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 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 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 reason the painting was removed from the official catalog of Rembrandt’s
paintings in the 1930s.
The author discusses some problems of the most famous painting ‘Portrait of an Elderly Women in a White Bonnet’. He claims that even though the style of the painting is very much similar to the painting of famous painter Rambradt, due to presence of some errors, the painting is attributed to other painter rather than Rambradt. However, the speaker avows the existence of all the errors in the painting, but she argues that there is some solid evidences that suggest it was portraited by Rambradt.
According to the author, the dress that the women wear does not fit for the women. The author claims that cheap hat but expensive fur collar coat is a major inconsistency in the painting. Whereas, the speaker claims that X ray experiment shows that this fur collar was added by another painter many years later from the original painting was made. To increase the value of the painting, the painter added this extra fur collar. The speaker mentions that the women in the original painting wore a less expensive ordinary cloth which was very much consistent with her hat.
The speaker also argues that the error about light and shadow in the painting was not created by the Rambradt. She claims that if the extra fur collar is removed the ordinary light color cloth reflects the light on women’s face rather than absorb the light; and the original painting, there was no partial shadow on the women’s face.
Finally, the speaker suggests that the original painting was on a single wood panel which was the common feature of Rambradt’s painting. She asserts that in order to inche aease the grandness or cost, someone enlarge the painting by using several wood panel glued one by one. At the same time, she also mentions the wood panel which was used in the painting was made by the wood from the same tree from which Rambradt made wood panel.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | nusybah | 73 | view |
| 2023-06-06 | YasamanEsml | 73 | view |
| 2023-06-06 | YasamanEsml | 70 | view |
| 2023-04-23 | Yam Kumar Oli | 70 | view |
| 2023-02-24 | Muggle | 80 | view |
- Agnostids were a group of marine animalsthat became extinct about 450 millionyears ago. Agnostid fossils can be found inrocks in many areas around the world. From the fossil remains, we know thatagnostids were primitive arthropods-relatives of modern-day 80
- In many organizations perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages First of all a group of people has a wider range of knowledge exper 78
- TPO 1 Integrated Writing 70
- Pterosaurs were an ancient group of winged reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Many pterosaurs were very large, some as large as a giraffe and with a wingspan of over 12 meters. Paleontologists have long wondered whether large pterosaurs were cap 80
- TPO-07 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 88, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'woman'?
Suggestion: Woman
...famous painting ‘Portrait of an Elderly Women in a White Bonnet’. He claims that even...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 188, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” 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.
... a major inconsistency in the painting. Whereas, the speaker claims that X ray experime...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 221, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: X-ray
...nting. Whereas, the speaker claims that X ray experiment shows that this fur collar w...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 209, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'enlarges'.
Suggestion: enlarges
...he aease the grandness or cost, someone enlarge the painting by using several wood pane...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, so, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => 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: 1536.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78504672897 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31514692415 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 145.348785872 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470404984424 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => 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: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3201922117 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.153846154 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6923076923 21.698381199 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.38461538462 7.06452816374 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159570233522 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679717502741 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736622524014 0.0662205650399 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107643825953 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0844531596523 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.8 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.