 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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A masterful piece of art detective work; The Enigma of Piero. Piero della Francesca. By Carlo Ginzburg. (Verso, pounds 22). Reviewed by Monica Foot.
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Byline: Monica Foot
Considering that Piero della Francesca is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most daring of Italian Renaissance painters, remarkably little is known about him. He was born in 1420 and died in 1492 at Borgo San Sepolcro. He is best known for his frescoes, long neglected and only recently restored, of the Story of the True Cross, in the choir of San Francesca, Arezzo, of which the dates are unclear and even the order in which they are painted. He wrote on geometry and on perspective and was a master of both.
If you wish to see his ...
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SOUTH AFRICA CASTS CRITICAL EYE ON THE SYMBOLS OF APARTHEID.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...Society in Pretoria. "After Verwoerd, it's going to be (former...Boshoff, a son-in-law of Verwoerd and leader of the Afrikaner Volkswag...government. That the name of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd would become the first target...
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In Whitest Africa: THE AFRIKANER HOMELAND OF ORANIA
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...foot statue of Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. Acknowledged by all but the...villain in South African history, Verwoerd is known as the architect of...in Jim Crow America, it was Verwoerd who, with the mad zeal of the...
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Malan to De Klerk: Leadership in the Apartheid State.
Magazine article from: Political Science Quarterly
; ...strong, decided leaders, some (like Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd) touched with charisma; others (like...three prime ministers (D. F. Malan, Hendrik Gert Strijdom, and Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd) built the edifice of apartheid, enforcing...
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EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: SCHOOLS ARE FALLING ON HARD TIMES
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...engraved names include that of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd better known as the architect...in neighbouring South Africa. Verwoerd's family lived in what was...only of a different colour to Verwoerd but have little time to contemplate...
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Who's sorry now?
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...public history focuses on Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, chief architect of apartheid...is it the same one where Dr. Verwoerd was murdered with a knife in...the fanatically zealous Dr. Verwoerd also figures in American David...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Vain but cunning bully who lived beyond the law; PW Botha, 'South Africa's Pinochet', has passed on but his ghost haunts the Outeniqua mountains and his legacy is a blight on our political landscape.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
; ...signed the 1955 Freedom Charter. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, the acknowledged architect...after the Sharpeville massacre, Verwoerd, in a denouement worthy of Shakespeare...us - in the year of my birth. Verwoerd was followed by the descent into...
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Education-Zimbabwe: The Schools Soldier On.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...engraved names include that of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd - better known as the architect...in neighbouring South Africa. Verwoerd's family lived in what was...only of a different colour to Verwoerd - but have little time to contemplate...
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Holland Blame everything bad on immigrants
Magazine article from: New African
; ...Culemborg. Another Dutchman worth remembering is Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. He was the primary architect of apartheid (derived...word "apart hood1} and its greatest theoretician. Verwoerd was a native Dutch before he migrated to South Africa...
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The thrill of the pikkewyn's kiss.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...the long-term ethno-benevolent strategies of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd's National Party, the longer the impending journey...discipline, not to mention the global statesmanship of Dr Verwoerd Mr. John Vorster Mr. Kaizer Matanzima Mr. PW Botha...
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 "The Mercury (South Africa)")
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Waxworks: Go figure.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa)
; ...Nelson Mandela, Hugh Masekela, Gary Player, Olive Schreiner, Jan Smuts, Charlize Theron, Desmond Tutu and Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. I suppose we could put Madam and Eve in there, too, with their figures at the museum entrance. The trouble...
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