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Book Review
From Memory to Marble: The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument. Volume I: The Frieze. Volume II: The Scenes
11/2021 | 1424 | 163
Pages: 1087-1088
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Reviewer:
Fejfer, Jane (Fejfer, Jane)
Subjects
artists:
Coetzer, W.H.
subjects:
South African / Friezes / Colonialism
works:
Voortrekker Monument
Reviewed Items
works:
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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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).