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...Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that he produced in many versions over the years, the poses are borrowed from Michelangelo and Tintoretto, among other sources. And the temple is the familiar architectural space of Italian painting. But El Greco has pushed the figures forward until they, not the arches and columns, define the space. Scooping and gyring, they roil the surface of the scene until the picture plane fractures like...
...city of Naples is doing the reverse: deliberately putting modern art underground. The No Places project, whose latest edition was unveiled in July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials...
...Death Valley's natural beauty that draws most visitors and brings them back for more. Well-marked hiking trails offer endless opportunities to experience at close range the raw and diverse geography created by erosion, volcanism and shifting tectonic plates. If you start at Zabriskie Point (a setting for Michelangelo Antonioni's film and the best place in the valley to watch the sun rise), you can trek down 2.8 miles past pale blue-green desert holly shrubs, sun-drenched yellow badlands, the fluted walls of Red Cathedral and the pinnacle of stately Manley Beacon...
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...allied bombs that hit Vienna's Albertina Palace in March 1945 destroyed nine magnificent neoclassical staterooms and reduced stretches of richly decorated façade to rubble. The museum's priceless art collection - including masterpieces by Michelangelo and Rembrandt - had been moved by the Nazis to safe storage in salt mines near Salzburg, and survived unharmed. But the former Habsburg residence became a long-term casualty of war. Postwar refurbishment, from 1948-52, was a cash-strapped compromise of gray concrete exteriors; the grand entrance was replaced by a door at the side of the building. Visitors hoping to catch...