The park also contains more than 30 important historical or archaeological sites, ranging from Stone Age cave art to Hellenistic and late Roman settlements where valuable decorative pieces such as coins, ceramics and statues have been discovered.

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For enthusiasts of other gemstones, there is an imposing sapphire ring with a luscious stone weighing 41 carats that comes from the estate of Texan art patron Caroline Wiess Law .

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At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.

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The Stone Forest, a set of towering rock formations, truly looked like a work of art.

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He objects to monolithic buildings like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which separate their collections from the hubbub of the street with vast staircases and thick stone walls.

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