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 reasons the painting was removed from the official catalog of Rembrandt’s paintings in the 1930s.
In this set of materials, the author strongly postulates that a painting known as attributed to Rembrandt is not painted by Rembrandt and provides three claims to endorse its idea. On the other hand, the professor states that the painting was painted by Rembrandt himself and gainsays each of the claims mentioned in the passage.
First and foremost, the passage begins by explaining that the way woman in the portrait dress is inconsistent. She wore a white linen cap which is a servant's kind of cloth and on the other hand, she wore a fur-collared coat which is not usual in servants. In response, the professor tells us now it is proven by x-ray that someone top-coated the original painting, and the furry collar is painted by that person a hundred years after.
Moreover, the professor in the lecture highlights that in the original painting everything is realistic, a part of the face is in shadow and the woman wore a dress of a light color that didn't absorb light. These claims refute the author's implication of light and shadow are not compatible with each other and Rembrandt couldn't make this kind of mistake.
In this way, the article wraps its arguments by explaining that the panel on which the painting was painted is the result of many pieces of wood glued with each other while
Rembrandt was often painted on a single wood panel. However, the professor in the listening refutes this point by showing the inaccuracy of author that the pieces of wood which were glued with the main panel belonged to the same tree and these pieces were just used to enlarge the painting to illustrate it more visibly.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 149, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'servants'' or 'servant's'?
Suggestion: servants'; servant's
.... She wore a white linen cap which is a servants kind of cloth and on the other hand, sh...
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Line 3, column 187, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...oman wore a dress of a light color that didnt absorb light. These claims refute the a...
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Line 3, column 230, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...t absorb light. These claims refute the authors implication of light and shadow are not...
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Line 3, column 319, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...ompatible with each other and Rembrandt couldnt make this kind of mistake. In this way...
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Line 4, column 173, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eces of wood glued with each other while Rembrandt was often painted on a single ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, moreover, so, while, kind of, on the other hand
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 : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1339.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74822695035 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52144616441 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.471631205674 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => 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: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.67545198 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.777777778 110.228320801 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.3333333333 21.698381199 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.55555555556 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => 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: 0.255719350713 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113446272742 0.0996497079465 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113414711329 0.0662205650399 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152829265903 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.117279308641 0.0443174109184 265% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.93 53.8541721854 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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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.