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.
Both the reading passage and the listening section talk about the painting of an Elderly woman in white Bonet by rembrandt. The passage argues that although the painting superficially looks similar to a painting made by rembrandt, it is in fact not painted by rembrandt. The passage provides 3 reasons to bolster this claim. However, the listening section refutes all three claims.
First of all, the text states that there are inconsistencies in the way the woman is dressed, in that, she is wearing a white cap, a kind that only servants wear which is in direct contrast with the luxurious and expensive fur coat that no servant could afford. The lecture, on the other hand states that the fur coat was not a part of the original painting and that it was painted 100 years after the painting to make it look like a formal painting of an aristocrat lady.
Second, the reading section avers that since rembrandt was a master of painting light and dark shadows, he could not have illuminated the lady's face by reflecting light from the dark fur coat. In contrast, the lecturer claims that in the original painting, a light coloured cloth was present instead of the fur coat. this light coloured cloth, according to the lecturer would reflect light and hence provide a reason for the illuminated face of the lady.
Last but not least, the reading passage asserts that since the painting was painted on a panel made of several pieces of wood glued together and since other paintings by the same artist were never painted on such glued pieces of wood, it could not be a painting by rembrandt. Nevertheless, the lecturer refutes this claim by stating the that glued pieces of wood was a later addition to the painting in order to enhance the grandeur and value of the painting. In fact, the professor maintains that the wood from the original painting was same as the wood used in rembrandt's other painting, Self Potrait in the Hat.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 318, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...th was present instead of the fur coat. this light coloured cloth, according to the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, look, nevertheless, second, so, in contrast, in fact, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 30.3222958057 162% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1606.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 337.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76557863501 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47784253259 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471810089021 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.6076301101 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.833333333 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0833333333 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.41666666667 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252229301594 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101721232427 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110952302544 0.0662205650399 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162309577148 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.078852274254 0.0443174109184 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.98 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.8 11.0289183223 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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