European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On the roads. C. A a _ _ of Florence returns a Highway construction site amp Austria a a-1 Salzburg North a-7 Between Dornach and Tref fling. A-13 Between Schonberg and Matr Aiward exit. Germany a-1 Between the up Husen Bremen Lahndorf and Bremen hem Lingen exits. A-2 Between Kamiri and interchange Kamen. A-4 interchange Kiln said and Kiln poll. A-5 Between the Jastatt and Baden Baden exits Fernwald and interchange Gam Bach. A-7 interchange Hamburg Northwest. A-8 Between Karlsbad and interchange Karlsruhe. A-9 Between Weissenfels and bad Durrenberg exits. Am 0 Between Rudersdorf and Berlin Kopenick and Between Berlin Heller sort and Rudersdorf. A-61 Between Ahrweiler and Sinzig. A-81 ludwigs Burg North and. Ludwigs Burg South a Netherlands a a-52 Between arnhem and Nijm Egen. Switzerland a n-2 Between die ten and Belche Tunnel. This is a partial list of major projects Mountain passes closed Austria a Silvetta Timmel Joch. France a Galbier Glandon Iserman Kleiner St Bernhard rest fond la Bonette. . Jau Tenpass. Switzerland a Furka or Lysol Numen in grosser St Bernhard pass san Bernardino Susten  prices prices Are per liter for unleaded super. Austria 85c Belgium 870 czech of Republic a 660 Croatia a 740 Denmark a a 830 England a 700 on the Economy France a 900-940 Germany a 840-910 on the Economy Greece a 900 Hungary a 83c Italy a a 97c-990 on the Economy Poland a 510 slovak Republic a 660 Slovenia a 51 a Spain a 840 Switzerland a 580-710 Yugoslavia a si.98.Highway information Telephone numbers listed Are valid for the country named. If calling from another country Check your local Telephone directory for the International Access and country codes. England a 0898-500-241 highways traffic in Britain and Europe Royal automobile club. Germany a 01169 highways traffic in Germany Europe Al Gemeiner Deutscher automobile club German language Only. Italy a 06-4212 or 06-43631 highways traffic in Italy italian automobile club. A italian language Only. Scurf ally a Lri or deut chef Aulo mob club Munich Germany by William d. Montalbano los Angeles times Long and  Between Art and science has finally paid off for Florence Italy bringing peace at last to one of the world s favorite skylines. The giant eight sided Cathedral dome that is Florence s civic signature is emerging from a 15-year, $7 million structural checkup and artistic overhaul with a fresh face and a clean Bill of health. That should Delight visitors and it May even mollify critics who have Long insisted that restoring mediocre Art was not Worth the risk of damaging a dome that is a priceless architectural Marvel. A soaring mesh shrouded scaffold that has obscured the Interior of the dome since 1980 will be removed this month to reveal 4,800 Square Yards of restored 16th-Century frescoes. Spotted among them is a network of sophisticated monitoring instruments designed to safeguard the future of the 15th-Century dome whose construction by Filippo Brunelleschi wrote a bold new chapter in the history of architecture. The cupola was controversial even before it was built. When Brunelleschi won a civic Competition in 1418, Many florentine said it would be impossible to cover the vast vaulted altar area of the Church without extensive buttressing. Brunelleschi built it without supports nonetheless borrowing herringbone techniques of Brick and Stone beam construction from the ancient romans. Hardly had the completed red Brick dome been. Consecrated in 1436, though when it began to develop  to preserve the dome instantly became a civic preoccupation in Florence. Furthermore the decoration chosen to illuminate the Interior of the dome a Gigantic Fresco of the last judgment has been the subject of timeless and. Disputations discussion among the Habi tues of florentine Coffee bars for generations. Us Anglo Tel to me Foreman Sabino Giovannoni gives a four of frescoes being restored in the giant eight sided Cathedral dome in Florence Italy. Giorgio Vasari began the work in 1572, but it was finished by Federigo Zuccaro Vasari was a prolific decorator but a so so Painter. His greatest contribution to the Renaissance was As a biographer and an architect. Zuccaro took Over after Vasari s death in 1574. He was a younger Man and an artist of a very different Stripe a precursor of the baroque Era that would dominate italian Art following the Renaissance. The Bottom Tine the sum of the vast painting May be impressive but it is More a document of its times than great Art. Quot there is of course no Way we can compare this last judgment to Michelangelo s in the sistine Chapel Quot says Cristina Danti of the National arts ministry who helped oversee the restoration of the painting Quot the sistine Chapel was commissioned by a Pope. This is a work commissioned by civil rulers a the Medici Quot Danti observed Quot it is an important document of Renaissance Art and history. It is not to traditional classical florentine tastes. There Are even portraits of the Painter his family the master builders and their  important perhaps but hardly a favorite among the people of a City that houses some of the world s Best  features Many faces of Goya in miniature by Michael Kummelman the new York times. Almost every age has wanted Goya  own. The romantics saw him As a Kindred spirit which he was. Then the realists adopted him As this show ends june 12. Everyman s Champion which he was too up to a Point. The symbolises embraced him. The surrealists claimed him for obvious reasons the existentialists for less obvious ones even the fascist Franco because Goya was. Spanish and patriotic and the servant to a succession of rulers. Most recently a major travelling exhibition in 1989 served up Goya the Liberal a figure More in tune w Ith Post Franco Spain. A Goya is too Complex an artist to fit neatly into any of these slots and it comes almost As a Relief that Coya truth and fantasy at London s Royal Academy does t try. The show celebrates him simply As a Brilliant Painter. It was organized by Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy Manuela Mena Marquez of the Prado in Madrid Spain and the Goya scholar Juliet Wilson Bareau and is one of the most pleasurable exhibitions in a longtime. It is also out of proportion in its Impact to the size of the 87 works on View at their biggest they re about 3 feet by 1 foot and at their tiniest 2. Inches Square. Coya produced Small paintings throughout his career sometimes As sketches for tapestries frescoes and larger canvases but. Often As Independent Quot Cabinet Quot pictures. A Goya s themes include torture rape murder Highway robbery Shipwreck cannibalism mental collapse witches monsters religious persecution blood sport and War. He also did devotional scenes of a Saccharine sweetness portraits and images of figures in the landscape. It s impossible to Call an exhibition devoted exclusively to Small paintings a proper retrospective but it is remarkably close to one in terms of the Broad Range of subjects covered and the Levels on which Goya s Genius is revealed a As colonist polemicist Iro nist humorist and dramatist. You can appreciate his hand Here in a Way you can t always in the bigger works his touch tends to be More intimate More delicate and More spontaneous although. Astonishingly precise. 20 stripes Magazine june 2, 10lj4