TPO-3: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made reading passage.
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 passage claims that the painting- “Portrait of an Elderly woman in a white bonnet” could not be a work by Rembrandt because there are problems with the painting However, the lecturer refutes the opinions of the passage.
First of all, the passage claims that there is inconsistency about the way the women in the portrait is dressed, as she is wearing a cap that only servants would wear while she is also wearing a luxurious fur collar that is too expensive for servant. However, the lecturer points out that fur collar was not part of the original painting, instead it was painted over the top of the painting long after the painting was painted. Therefore, the inconsistency cannot prove that this isn’t painted by Rembrandt.
Second, the passage argues that the light and shadow in the painting do not fit together and this should not happen as Rembrandt was a master of painting light and shadow. However, as the lecturer mentioned above, the fur collar color was actually added by somebody else. In fact, the woman was originally wearing a light color collar, so that her face was illuminated by the light reflected from the light collar. Therefore, the inconsistency of the light and shadow in original painting was realistic and accurate.
Finally, the passage claims that the wood panels used for the painting are not the type of the panels that Rembrandt usually used so it casts doubt about the origin of this painting. However, the lecturer points out that the wood panel was enlarger with extra panels to the original one, in order to increase the value of the paintings. And it is also proved that the piece of the original wood panel is from the same tree as the other wood panels Rembrandt would use. Therefore, the different wood panel used for the painting does not prove the doubt about the origin of the painting.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, while, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1547.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 319.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84952978056 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52085960522 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.423197492163 0.540411800872 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 473.4 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.8812478682 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.916666667 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5833333333 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.116246705441 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0524427347319 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360918865918 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.078016078504 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024918392941 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => 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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