He did not move into his predecessor's vast 15th-floor office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
This vast 16th-century Venetian painting of an open-air banquet teems with life and colour.
An absurdly, uselessly vast 19th-century house, Italianate in style, that was gutted by fire in 1937.
Programmes also include Mozart's Piano Concertos No 24 (Mon) and 22 (Fri), the conductor as soloist, the vast 8th Symphony is played alone on Tuesday.
Smaller sculptures of Buddha and bodhisattvas attest to the religious fervor that also found expression in the vast 10th-century temple complex at Borobodur on Java.
The cathedral is a tall gothic structure with a baroque altar and a vast, 18th-century organ that is being restored.
The city's main sights, including its vast 18th-century cathedral, aqueduct and the Palacio de Gobierno, can be explored on foot.
Fish mingle in with people; perch, bream, pike, trout, eels swum from the ocean to a pool of absolutely still peat water, and the golden carp which Czechs eat at Christmas, harvested from vast 16th-century fishponds.
And of course no one had as much taste as Rudolf, vast 19th-century paintings of naked men on glowing velvet walls, Russian-Oriental fabrics and furs, all on a huge scale.
