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He began building this grandiose retreat in 1919 on a ranch that he had inherited from his father, who made his fortune mining Nevada’s Comstock Lode.
What began in a.d. 830 as the Doges’ chapel for the remains of the evangelist Mark, the republic’s patron saint, was rebuilt in the 11th century as a grandiose Byzantine-Oriental basilica influenced by the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople.
The Guardian of London pointed out that the commission's problems were partly caused by the expansion of its responsibilities as it "found itself taking on ever more grandiose tasks, largely on the demand of member states, with progressively more limited resources.
Indeed, KSM describes a grandiose original plan: a total of ten aircraft to be hijacked, nine of which would crash into targets on both coasts-they included those eventually hit on September 11 plus CIA and FBI headquarters, nuclear power plants, and the tallest buildings in California and the state of Washington.
Tintoretto’s masterpiece in chiaroscuro effects is the grandiose Crucifixion in the Sala dell’Albergo.