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...Pieve di Cadore, a hill town in northern Italy, and was carried off by the plague in his beloved but insalubrious Venice in 1576, still painting, at the patriarchal age of nearly 90 -- he posed dreadful problems for other artists. The length of his career condemned all his Venetian contemporaries to be the second choice of patrons. This must have been especially hard on Tintoretto, born 30 years after Titian, who had every right to expect to inherit the great man's mantle. Titian refused to die until Tintoretto was nearly...
...sunny Sunday morning in July, near the height of the Venetian tourist season, the public gardens are empty. Where is the audience for the new? The national pavilions, that whimsical collage of defunct official styles, are as deserted as the dream piazza in a De Chirico, populated only by young guardiani doing their nails in the humid silence. It reminds you of the old nursery rhyme...
Expo planners envision a vast, ultramodern "workshop of ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...made his entrance into the music world at the age of three. "We had venetian blinds on the west windows," he remembers, "and in late afternoon, the light would come through at a very extreme angle. And in those bands of light were millions of little dust particles dancing. I used to stand at the piano and try to play music for the dancing dust...
...most, only two of the works stolen from the slightly frayed but beloved museum, built as a re-creation of a Venetian palace in 1903, have real significance in art history. Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his only seapiece, and the Vermeer Concert is, well, a Vermeer: a sublime patch of silence and visual harmony washed in pearly light, one of only 32 known works by the master. The other "Rembrandt" painting, of a husband and wife, is probably by one of his pupils; the French works -- one by Manet and several by Degas -- vary from...