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.
The reading passage goes into a ton of detail regarding the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt's painting called as the 'Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet'. It states that the painting has inconsistencies that could suggest that it was not painted by Rembrandt and hence, it was removed from the official catalog. However, the lecturer disagrees.
The first problem suggested in the reading is that there is inconsistency in the woman's dress where she is wearing a white linen cap which only servants would wear and along with that, she is also wearing a luxurious fur collar that no servant could afford financially. However, the lecturer has evidence collected from re-examinations of the painting which conclude that the fur collar was painted by another artist on the original painting roughly a hundred years later in order to increase the value of the painting. Hence, this proves the punctiliousness of Rembrandt.
Another problem stated in the reading suggests that the painting does not confrom with the rules of light and shadow in a painting and these errors would never originate from Rembrandt. However, the lecturer states that in the original painting, the woman wears a light coloured collar instead of the luxurious fur collar. This proves the reason why the face of the woman in the painting is illuminated by light and not in partial shadow. This further proves the point that the original painting was indeed painted by Rembrandt himself.
Finally, the last problem stated in the reading suggests that the painting was painted on several pieces of wood glued together which oppose the habit of Rembrandt to paint all paintings on a single piece of wood. Opposing this, the lecturer posits that the original painting was in fact, painted on a single piece of wood. When the fur collar was added, extra pieces of wood were added too in order to make the painting bigger and more valuable. In addition to that, the piece of wood used in this painting is of the same type as the pice of wood used in all the remaining paintings of Rembrandt.
These points prove that the original painting was painted by Rembrandt and not anyone else.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, regarding, so, in addition, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 30.3222958057 171% => 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: 1803.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 366.0 270.72406181 135% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9262295082 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5382043088 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 145.348785872 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437158469945 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 537.3 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.3965492519 49.2860985944 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.2 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86666666667 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297548033737 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136970024299 0.0996497079465 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085684187242 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213556052806 0.162205337803 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529771391605 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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