mbrandt 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.
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Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether "Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet" was created by the renowned seventeenth-century Dutch painters. The former expresses doubt that it was the Rembrandt creation but the latter provides three reasons to disprove its skepticism.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that there is a mismatch of the woman clothing because the fur collar clothes were so costly for the servants and Rembrandt was known for attracting people's attention to the details of the dress-up of the paintings. However, the lecture contends that in the original paintings the woman was not wearing fur color. Fur collar was included after 100 years of the original artwork due to increase value. This was revealed by analyzing the pigments of the art through x-ray.
Secondly, the text asserts that the painting does not focus on light and shadow properly as the painter used to be. As the face seems to be partial shadow and the dark fur collar below the face absorbs the light instead of making reflection. In contrast, the listening counters that after removing the modified color, it reveals that the painter used simple, light color and it's reflection illuminated the woman's face. Rembrandt painted it with an appropriate order of light and shadow effect as his other paintings.
In third, the reading passage mentions that panel glue was used in this art piece to joint several pieces of wood nevertheless he was unfamiliar with this type of works. On the other hand, the professor states that the original work was made by using only a single piece of wood. To make it valuable and long, a panel glued was used to joint additional wood on the top of the paintings. Therefore, the original painting was symmetrical with his other paintings.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 310, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, in contrast, first of all, 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 : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97697368421 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66298488295 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529605263158 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4309995368 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.071428571 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163904291252 0.272083759551 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602504698724 0.0996497079465 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0663325342346 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10538527013 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622863303107 0.0443174109184 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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