ABSTRACT

It is now some 80 years since D. H. Lawrence, accompanied by his friend the artist Earl Brewster, set off in April of 1927 to visit the Etruscan sites. In his inevitable fashion, Lawrence details his travels and his descent into the lost world of the Etruscans, whilst all the while interjecting his observations with personal interpretations of the images and artifacts he finds, helped by a liberal dose of artistic license.

…the tomb called the Grotta Bella is interesting because of the low-relief carvings and stucco reliefs…the dog who is man’s guardian even on the death journey, the two lions that stand by the gateway of life or death, the triton, or merman, and the goose, the bird that swims on the waters and thrusts its head deep into the flood of the Beginning and the End…

Etruscan Places, Chapter 1 (Lawrence, 1972)