Vietcong
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Vietcong a derogatory contraction of the term
Viet Nam Cong San (”Vietnamese Communists”) used to refer to the Communist-led insurgents operating in the Republic of (South) Vietnam from the mid-1950s to 1975. The term was never used by Vietnamese Communists who preferred to identify themselves as the
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/19/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...their fat and handsome monograph, Paolo Uccello (Thames & Hudson pounds 60...be living and working now. (In Uccello's case, it's easy to suspect...rounded artistic personality of Uccello can be shown. It's a brave aim...
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 "Américas (Spanish Edition)")
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Licencia artística para sueños infantiles: la pintora argentina Norma Bessouet evoca el apacible mundo de jóvenes desconectadas de las realidades de la vida adulta.(Entrevista)
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition); 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...dedicados al tema de Selvaggio y Uccello>>. Para esa serie...y el gran pintor florentino Paolo Uccello. En la historia, Selvaggio se va marchitando a medida que Uccello la descuida y la abandona por su...
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Brunelleschi e il Grasso.
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...questa prospettiva", ripeteva Paolo Uccello fin quasi nel sonno, a testimonianza...geometria Brunelleschi, Alberti e Paolo Uccello possono sfuggire alla riprovazione...ingegno sofistico" dello stesso Paolo ci ricorda la tentazione anche...
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Reviews: The first Renaissance Man
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 2/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...woman through an intervening gauze. Paolo Uccello was also heavily influenced by Alberti...geometric approach so faithfully that Uccello was required to repaint it, in...reality. The perspective diagrams of Uccello and others are often reminiscent...
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Diptych.(CREACIÓN)(Ilustración)
Magazine article from: Káñina; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; DIPTYCH I. Paolo Uccello's The Hunt At night, at night, sullen...dear, why was forgiveness not shown? Uccello's Red horsemen blare horns through...scent Of crushed foliage and the hunt. Uccello's hunt over midnight towards The darkest...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Mickey's war. (Persian Gulf war painting)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/25/1992; 700+ words
; ...used to be so simple. When Cosimo de' Medici asked Paolo Uccello to paint the Battle of San Romano, the painter gave...Keane's imagery is just as selective, in its way, as Uccello's view of San Romano. if he is indeed making some...
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Richard Rezac: Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Giorgio Vasari's tale about how Paolo Uccello would sit at his desk late into the night, drawing obsessively...rather exquisite but not without a degree of escapism. As in Uccello's project, there is something inevitable and potentially...
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Britain's 50 best paintings {outside London}
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...hands fluttering, the chair more powerful than the ghostly figure in front of it. Paolo Uccello The Hunt in the Forest (c.1470) Ashmolean, Oxford Uccello was famous for his depiction of animals, as well as for his development of linear...
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Richard Rezac
Magazine article from: Artforum; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Giorgio Vasari's tale about how Paolo Uccello would sit at his desk late into the night, drawing...exquisite but not without a degree of escapism. As in Uccello's project, there is something inevitable and potentially...
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Picture galleries outside London: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...across the Renaissance Room. In the stir and rouse of Paolo Uccello's Stag Hunt gaudy mannikins, mostly in open-mouthed...trees into three vistas of green shadow. Because of Uccello's exactness in the art of perspective, decried though...
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Paolo Uccello
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Paolo Uccello The Italian painter Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) was a leading figure in establishing the Renaissance in Florence. Abarber's son, Paolo Uccello was born in Florence. In 1407 he was apprenticed to the sculptor...
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Uccello, Paolo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Uccello, Paolo ( Paolo di Dono ) ( c. 1397–1475). Florentine painter...artists of the early Renaissance . Vasari says he was called ‘Uccello’ (which means ‘bird’) because he loved...
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Andrea del Castagno
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the Cathedral of Florence, like Paolo Uccello's earlier one to Sir John Hawkwood...typically, Andrea eliminates Uccello's perspective brackets and flanks...Castagno is in Italian: Mario Salmi, Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico...
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Sir John de Hawkwood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Italy and became a condottiere . He served sometimes one republic, sometimes another, but he was employed most regularly by Florence, where he died. The cathedral in Florence contains an equestrian portrait of Hawkwood by Paolo Uccello.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...training ground for the next generation of Florentine painters and sculptors, including Donatello, Masolino, and Paolo Uccello. The doors were completed in 1424. Ghiberti made several other works during the period from 1403 to 1424, including...
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