Word: huntresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French hosts had moved the meeting into the Grande Salle des Fêtes of the old Hotel Majestic on Avenue Kléber, which now serves as Paris' International Conference Center. The Grande Salle is 70 feet long, decorated with rich Gobelin tapestries showing Diana the Huntress, and dominated by three huge crystal chandeliers. The delegates assembled around a 26-foot-diameter table, almost double the size of the one used in an earlier procedural conference. The U.S. and the South Vietnamese, each placing eight representatives at the rim, sat as one delegation, in line with their claim...
...standing is Michel Bouquet, pathetic yet loathsome as a pawky, balding bachelor who cannot believe his good fortune when a mysterious beauty comes to his shabby room with a bottle of strange-tasting liqueur. Scarcely less memorable is Charles Denner, a painter who poses Moreau as Diana the Huntress and gets an arrow in the back. Or Claude Rich as a womanizer who smirks curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror. Another director might have made the balcony scene an urban one; Truffaut stages it along...
Especially appealing: William Blake's watercolors (through May 24), Houdon's perfectly balanced terra-cotta sculpture of Diana the Huntress, Bellini's St. Francis in Ecstasy, Holbein's Sir Thomas More, La Tour's Education oj the Virgin, Fragonard's series of canvases representing "The Progress of Love," commissioned and rejected by Madame Du Barry...
...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, for in a painting that is admittedly a copy of the Rubens Diana, at the Picture Gallery in Kassel, Germany, the huntress wears leggings and sandals. Finally. Held detected several pentimenti. or ridges of paint that reveal a painted-over design, on the Getty canvas. These, he said, are "a sign of spontaneous execution characteristic of an original version, while a neat finish that does not betray the trial and error of creation...
...Huntress Hippolyta looks like a sort of Katharine Hepburn on a Grecian urn. Moreover, the puppets move with amazing fluidity and naturalness-every second of screen time represents 24 changes of position; the complete film, running 74 minutes, required exactly 106,560 moves -through scenes designed with antic charm and persistent style. The spectator soon accepts the intricate artifice and sinks happily into a swoon of poesy and forms, well met by moonlight...