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 pa
The reading and the lecture both discuss whether the painting "Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet" was actually
painted by him. The author feels that it actually for which three possible explanations are provided. Meanwhile, the lecturer
challenges the claims made by the author and believes that they are faulty.
To begin with, the author claims that, the way the lady in the portrait has dressed is quite absurd. The article further insists that
the cap and the coat she has worn comes from two different classes of society which is unlikely in the paintings of Rembrandt.
However, the lecturer contradicts this idea by mentioning that the original painting did not have a fur collar which was found
out upon doing the x-ray analysis. Further, he says that it was done to increase the value of the painting by bringing the touch of
aristocracy in it.
Secondly, the author asserts that the combination of light and shadow does not go together, the face being illuminated by light
where it should have appeared partially dark by shadows. However, the lecturer argues that the original portrait used just the
light colour cloth instead of the aforementioned dark fur collar which justifies the bright face of the lady.
Finally, the article points out that Rembrandt had used multiple pieces of word joined together as a base for the painting. In
contrary, the lecturer contends that like the fur collar, the wood panels too were added later to raise its worth. He further added
that the original painting was actually made on a single piece of wood, just like the one he made for his self-portrait.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1371.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 275.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98545454545 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58156208717 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 145.348785872 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563636363636 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 419.366225166 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.4327986876 49.2860985944 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.25 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9166666667 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.16666666667 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 13.0 4.09492273731 317% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210064422478 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727100764635 0.0996497079465 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0952683811343 0.0662205650399 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0710558582816 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0777940850149 0.0443174109184 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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