Rembrandt is one of the most famous seventeenth-century Dutch painters. However, there are doubts whether some paintings attributed to Rembrandt were actually panted by him One such painting is known as Portrait of an Elderly Woman in White Bonnet. The painting was attributed to Rembrandt because of its style, and indeed the representation of the woman's faces 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 a master of painting of 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 wooden 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 1930s.
The reading passage and the lecture discuss about a certain painting of Rembrandt, The Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet. They both present certain points that help in deciding whether the painting is Rembrandt's work or not. The writer in the reading passage states that this painting is falsely accredited to Rembrandt. The lecturer however disagrees with this and answers all the questions raised by the writer about the painting.
The writer begins by stating the error of the Fur Collar. According to him, Rembrandt was known to pay close attention to the minute details such as the subject's clothing. But then why would he paint an expensive fur collar over a lady who seemed like a servant. The lecturer answers this question by citing Xrays of the portrait. They show that the fur collar was indeed painted later on the woman and was not part of the original painting. It was probably done by someone else who wanted to increase the value of this painting. So Rembrandt was originally correct in his observation.
Secondly, the writer poses a question on the lighting of the woman's face. He states that since she is donning a fur coat and the light source is from below her, her face should have been partially shadowed. The lecturer points out the flaw in the claim made by the author. He says that when the original painting was revealed, the woman was actually wearing a very light cloth, which reflected light on her face and in turn illuminated it. So again Rembrandt did not make a mistake in the lighting.
Finally the writer expresses doubt about the wooden panel on which the painting has been done. Rembrandt was not known to glue other pieces to a main panel according to him. But the lecturer once again refutes this point, by providing evidence of the study of this wooden panel. The pieces glued to the main panel are actually done later, perhaps to enlarge the painting. The fact that the main wood panel is exactly the same as Rembrandt's other original work again emphasises that this painting is indeed a work of Rembrandt.
Thus the lecture provides proper justifications to all the concerns raised by the passage over this painting being a work of Rembrandt.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1820.0 1373.03311258 133% => OK
No of words: 382.0 270.72406181 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76439790576 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42632736854 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484293193717 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 548.1 419.366225166 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.6077557286 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.7272727273 110.228320801 75% => OK
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Discourse Markers: 3.54545454545 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.27373068433 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253409458076 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796784232759 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0743396902853 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149909576695 0.162205337803 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673257423927 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.3589403974 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 53.8541721854 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 12.2367328918 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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