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...that it was really the work of Rubens' assistant, Frans Snyders. Burchard. pointing out the dog that Diana caresses, said that Snyders "could never have created on his own an animal so highly expressive both in movement and feeling." The birds in the background, the flowers in the foreground, the "freshness and luminous color," he concluded, stamped it an early Rubens original...
...Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor John Held, argues that the Cleveland painting has the sort of minor details-the birds, the elaborate ironwork on Diana's lance, the foreground foliage-that "are not infrequently added by copyists to make their pictures more superficially interesting." In one matter Getty's canvas is more detailed: Diana, who is barelegged in Cleveland's version, wears sandals and leggings in Getty's. But even this, said Held, proves its authenticity...
...actors' bodies; Nikolai Cherkassov (Ivan) moves elegantly and always in such a studied way that the complements the total geometry of the scene. Standing on the ramparts of a fortress he gestures formally to the double, symmetrically snaking line of Muscovites in the distance. His hand, directly in the foreground and at right angles to the leaders of the crowd, effects a marvelously heightened feeling of perspective which, in turn, enhances the majesty of the Czar towering above his people...
...overhead in a red glider (see color). This leads him to probe in paint the mysteries of experience, to try to pinpoint man's place in nature, neither here (on the ground) nor there (in the air). "We must break that 18th century way of looking into the foreground," he insists. "Painting has to look behind its back...
...colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...