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In Piranesi's Prisons, Fantasy Freely Expressed
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prisons of the Imagination aren't
exactly begging to have new life breathed into them. The dark,
dreamlike images are broadly circulated, widely reproduced and
possessed of great visual appeal and narrative implication.
Successive generations just naturally find their way through the
twisting staircases and cavernous vaults to walk among the ropes and
chains and thrill to the smoking braziers, spiked wheels and other
instruments of torture.
But an installation that pairs the portfolio of 18th-century
etchings with new photos of string-art re-creations of them by ...
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Strengthening of structures damaged by the Azores earthquake of 1998.
Magazine article from: Construction and Building Materials
; ...social reality of Azores islands, as the Faial island, reveals an economy essentially...main premises for the rehabilitation of Faial small buildings hit by earthquakes in general...construction material characteristics in Faial island. This scope involved a broad inspection...
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The unspoiled Azores A haven for sailors - and tourists
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...around the world. They stopped over at Faial Island and, because of the local beauty...exhilarating freshness. In the harbor at Horta on Faial Island, yachtsmen gather to swap yarns...grimly evident on the northeast side of Faial. Houses, churches and public buildings...
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MID-ATLANTIC SAILOR'S HAVEN ATTRACTS STRESSED TOURISTS
Newspaper article from: The Columbian
; ...around the world. They stopped over at Faial Island and, gripped by the local beauty...freshness. In the popular harbor at Horta on Faial Island, yachtsmen gather to swap yarns...grimly evident on the northeast side of Faial. Houses, churches and public buildings...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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LOVELY, LAID-BACK AZORES A HAVEN FOR SAILORS AND CITY DWELLERS, TOO.(Getaways)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...around the world. They stopped over at Faial Island and, gripped by the local beauty...freshness. In the popular harbor at Horta on Faial Island, yachtsmen gather to swap yarns...grimly evident on the northeast side of Faial. Houses, churches and public buildings...
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Earthquake strikes Azores Islands, killing at least five
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Atlantic Ocean, 10 miles northeast of Faial, one of the group's nine volcanic islands...Force has a base, Pico, Sao Jorge and Faial - some 800 miles west of Portugal, the...main hospital in Horta, the capital of Faial, Dr. Jorge Camara, the hospital's...
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 "Herald Express (Torquay UK)")
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Amazing sights out of the blue So Miguel:
Newspaper article from: Herald Express (Torquay UK)
; So Miguel: Faial: A SEI whale surfaced to starboard bringing...international sailors based on the tiny island of Faial in the Azores - a nine-island volcanic...the marina at Horta, the largest town on Faial and from where the whale-watching boats...
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Earthquake strikes Azores Islands, killing at least nine
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Atlantic Ocean, 10 miles northeast of Faial, one of the group's nine volcanic islands...Force has a base, Pico, Sao Jorge and Faial - some 800 miles west of Portugal, the...nine people were killed, all of them on Faial, according to Helena Vaz, spokeswoman...
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The only problem with the Azores is getting there
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...easternmost, and a few days each on Flores and Faial, which is in the central group. There...a gin and tonic in Horta, on nearby Faial. The most extraordinary place of all is the new Capelinhos volcano on Faial. Everything in the Azores looks as though...
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WHY I ADORE THE AZORES The novelist Joanne Harris had a childhood fantasy about her ideal island. She found the real thing in the middle of the Atlantic
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Terceira, Graciosa, So Jorge, Pico and Faial; and Flores and Corvo on the west. From...three of the nine islands: So Miguel; Faial and Pico. So Miguel is the largest, and...rusty. On the third day we fly to Horta on Faial, in the central group of the Azores...
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SEA, AIR, RAIL
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...No. 1. Mutual Enterprise, No. 1. Faial, North Mole Inner. ARRIVED Drysdale...Chathams (LesShip). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Faial, New Plymouth, today. Sur Este 709...Chalmers, tomorrow. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Faial, TBA, today. Mutual Enterprise, sea...
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