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 "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.
The reading passage expressed several problems with the painting to suggest that the painting could not be worked by Rembrandt. However, the professor in the lecture said that all points are made in the passage are true, but some examinations have shown the painting indeed is painted by Rembrandt.
The first reason that the professor made, fur collar in the painting is not part of what Rembrandt painted this part was added hundred years after painting because someone wanted to show a luxurious fur collar to sell the painting. So, this problem the passage has made could be solved; The second reason, some mistakes in lights and shadows, the passage is talking about them, are not for the original painting because at the original painting the woman has worn a cap that will cause shadows on her face that is realistic as we expect from paintings of Rembrandt;
The third reason, as the professor explained in the lecture the painting is painted on one piece of wood so it is not painted on several kinds of wood as the passage has suggested. This happened because someone wanted the painting to show grander and more valuable to sell it.
In conclusion, by these reasons that are explained, the painting of a woman is a work of Rembrandt.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, second, so, third, in conclusion, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1032.0 1373.03311258 75% => OK
No of words: 216.0 270.72406181 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77777777778 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.83365862548 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46127413556 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 145.348785872 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.50462962963 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 311.4 419.366225166 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 36.0 21.2450331126 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 146.07722463 49.2860985944 296% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 172.0 110.228320801 156% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.0 21.698381199 166% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3333333333 7.06452816374 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3108499834 0.272083759551 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.186777381947 0.0996497079465 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527278195243 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226236431493 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.023723327 0.0443174109184 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.1 13.3589403974 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.86 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.04 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 63.6247240618 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 10.498013245 156% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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