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 inthe 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.
The lecture and the passage are both about Rambrandt’s painting of a woman. The lecturer gave her opinion that was contrast to the reading, explaining that the picture was actually painted by Rambrandt. She mentioned three distinct factors.
First of all, in the picture, the woman’s luxury fur collar that was inconsistent with the cap that blue collar worker used was added to the painting a hundred year after the original painting was finished. She argued that, in the original version, the woman’s collar was simple. Someone wanted to increase value of the painting by adding some eradicate stuff into it. This directly refutes the reading passage, which states that the painting was not painted by Rambrandt, who was known for paying attention to every detail.
Secondly, the lecturer stated that the light in the original painting, just like other Rambrandt’s works, was perfect, since the collar was light color, consorting with the light on the woman’s face. Again, this contradicts what cited in the reading that the light was different from Rambrandt’s workings that usually masterly in light and shadow.
Thirdly, the professor in the lecture explained that the panel of this painting was made of several pieces of wood glued together because the painting was enlarge to make to look more grand, adding value to it. Moreover, the original panel was made from the wood from the same tree as other Rambrandt’s paintings. Therefore, the fact that this painting was not the genuine Rambrandt’s work is severely untenable.
In conclusion, the lecturer effectively disputed the claims made in the passage by giving various constructive evidences and reasons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 156, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'enlarged'.
Suggestion: enlarged
...glued together because the painting was enlarge to make to look more grand, adding valu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, if, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => 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: 1450.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39033457249 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90676844644 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531598513011 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 429.3 419.366225166 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.116997792494 855% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
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: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5764675004 49.2860985944 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.538461538 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6923076923 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.69230769231 7.06452816374 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120354655169 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574049792936 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0559530458703 0.0662205650399 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0706360806133 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592804132716 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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