From Memory to Marble: The Historical
Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument
By Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider.
Volume I: The Frieze. 508 pp. incl. 382 col. +
b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020), £136.50.
ISBN 978–3–11–066878–0.
Volume II: The Scenes. 646 pp. incl. 400 col.
+ b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020), £136.50.
ISBN 978–3–11–066879–7. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The Battle of Blood River, 16th
December 1838, from the Hall of Heroes in
the Vortrekker Monument, Pretoria, designed
by W.H. Coetzer and carved in the workshop
of Romano Romanelli. Completed 1949.
(Photograph Russell Scott).