Terra murata
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On Procida, the third island in the bay of Naples (after Capri and Ischia), there is a promontory which is called Terra murata (walled land). A spectacular palazzo built there was transformed into a jail toward the end of the 18th century. It functioned as a jail (hence terra murata) until the seventies. After that the young people of Procida came to party into the buildings until they were secured. Nowadays one can visit the buildings which are desintegrating slowly. The drawing represents a girl sitting in one of the tall windows looking out to the sky and the sea as to freedom...
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Anne Reboul
I began drawing when I was about eight years old. I was trained at an art school in Paris, though my professional life has been spent in academic scientific research, where I had a very satisfactory professional life. I stopped drawing for about thirty years and began again in January 2018, when I…
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