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 reading and the lecture are both about the painting of the famous seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Rembrandt. The writer of the article believes that some of Rembrandt's paintings were not actually painted by him, for example a women portrait paining. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. The speaker thinks that, although that facts in the article are true, the women portrait painting was painted by Rembrandt.
First of all, the author claims that there's an inconsistent between the dress and the fur of the women's dress in the painting. This contradicts to the fact that Rembrandt always pay attention to the details of his paintings and would not made such mistake. However, the professor explains this point by giving more information that there's an pigment examination telling that the fur was painted by someone else to increase the value of the painting.
Secondly, the writer states that Rembrandt was famous for his great skill of painting light and shadow, but the light and shadow in the painting do not fit together. The lecturer suggests that the writer is misleading. She argues that because someone painted the new collar in to the portrait, so it contrasts with the original one that was the simple collar.
Finally, the author mentions that the panel of this painting is made of several pieces of wood, differed from the original Rembrandt's work that always used the single wood. The speaker describes this by giving the reason that the panel was enlarge by someone to make the painting more grand and more valuable. Moreover, she states that the single wood panel of the original one was form the same tree as other Rembrandt's paintings.
In conclusion, the professor effectively challenges the claims made in the article.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: 'woman' is the singular form of 'women'. Consider using 'woman'?
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'as for', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.260869565217 0.261695866417 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.155279503106 0.158904122519 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0652173913043 0.0723426182421 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0465838509317 0.0435111971325 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0186335403727 0.0277247811725 67% => OK
Prepositions: 0.145962732919 0.128828473217 113% => OK
Participles: 0.0434782608696 0.0370669169778 117% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.59136080443 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0155279503106 0.0208969081088 74% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.173913043478 0.128158765124 136% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00310559006211 0.0158828679856 20% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00931677018634 0.0114777025283 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1779.0 1645.83664459 108% => OK
No of words: 295.0 271.125827815 109% => OK
Chars per words: 6.03050847458 6.08160592843 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04852973271 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372881355932 0.374372842146 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.277966101695 0.287516216867 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.2 0.187439937562 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.105084745763 0.113142543107 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59136080443 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484745762712 0.539623497131 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.4494774534 53.8517498576 88% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0529801325 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0714285714 21.7502111507 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2233634078 49.3711431718 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.071428571 132.220823453 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 21.7502111507 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.878197800319 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 3.39072847682 236% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 48.8680387409 50.5018328374 97% => OK
Elegance: 2.04225352113 1.90840788429 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.373128207667 0.549887131256 68% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.143073213311 0.142949733639 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0318485328224 0.0787303798458 40% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.740495695371 0.631733273073 117% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.095184705375 0.139662658121 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.201178406283 0.266732575781 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629193468159 0.103435571967 61% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.520224454544 0.414875509568 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.109592425237 0.0530846634433 206% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255613944552 0.40443939384 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0842175689052 0.0528353158467 159% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.26048565121 47% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 3.49668874172 172% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.62251655629 166% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 3.1766004415 63% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 10.2958057395 136% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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