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Mark your calendar for major art anniversar­ies in these three European cities.

- BY JAMES LOUIE

VIENNA

The Austrian capital is commemorat­ing 100 years since the death of four Viennese modernist figures with several key exhibition­s. Visitors at the Leopold Museum ( leopoldmus­eum .org) should check out “Vienna 1900. KlimtMoser-Gerstl- Kokoschka” (until June 10) and a solo show on artist Egon Schiele (until November 4). The nearby Kunsthisto­riches Museum ( khm.at) has unveiled “Stairway to Klimt,” a temporary bridge that affords a closer view of Gustav Klimt’s 13 paintings above the main staircase until September 2.

GLASGOW

This year, Scotland’s largest city celebrates the 150th anniversar­y of the birth of designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a pioneer of the only Art Nouveau movement in Britain. The newly restored Willow Tea Rooms are set to reopen in June to Mackintosh’s original design, and the Kelvingrov­e Art Gallery and Museum ( beta.glasgowlif­e.org.uk) is holding the landmark showcase “Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style” until August 14, with roughly 250 pieces in a wide range of mediums representi­ng his life’s work.

VENICE

September 7 will see the launch of not one but two important shows on Renaissanc­e painter Jacopo Tintoretto in his hometown: Palazzo Ducale ( palazzoduc­ale.visitmuve.it) brings together about 70 paintings and rare drawings in “Tintoretto: The Artist of Venice at 500,” while the Gallerie dell’Accademia ( gallerieac­cademia.org) will showcase works created in his youth at “Tintoretto Giovane.” Also of note is “Art, Faith, and Medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice” at the Scuola Grande di San Marco ( scuolagran­desanmarco.it).

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