Cerveteri I–IV
Tarquinia I–III
Volterra I–III, Cortona
Cerveteri I, oil and lead pencil on linen, 37 x 31 cm
Cerveteri II, oil and lead pencil on linen, 45 x 37 cm
Cerveteri III, oil and lead pencil on linen, 40 x 33 cm
Cerveteri IV, oil and lead pencil on linen, 37 x 31 cm
Tarquinia I (Tomb of the Master of the Olympics), oil and lead pencil on linen, 40 x 33 cm
Tarquinia II (Tomb of the Bulls), oil and lead pencil on linen, 40 x 33 cm
Tarquinia III (Tomb of the Baron), oil and lead pencil on linen, 45 x 37 cm
Volterra I, oil and lead pencil on linen, 37 x 31 cm
Volterra II, oil and lead pencil on linen, 40 x 33 cm
Volterra III (Le Blaze), oil and lead pencil on linen, 37 x 31 cm
Cortona I, oil and lead pencil on linen, 37 x 31 cm
Tarquinia,Tomb of the Bulls:
”He /the young German archaeologist/ was very nice, showing me details, with his flashlight, that I should have overlooked. The white horse, for example, has had its drawing most plainly altered: you can see the old outline of the horse’s back legs and breast, and of the foot of the rider, and you can see how considerably the artist changed the drawing, sometimes more than once. He seems to have drawn the whole thing complete, each time, then changed the position, changed the direction, to please his feeling. And as there was no indiarubber to rub out the first attempts, there they are, from at least six hundred years before Christ: the delicate mistakes of an Etruscan who had the instinct of a pure artist in him, as well as the blithe insouciance which makes him leave his alterations for anyone to spy out, if they want to.”
"One of the famous tombs at this far-off end of the necropolis is the Tomb of the Bulls. It contains what the guide calls: un po’ di pornografico! – but a very little. The German boy shrugs his shoulders as usual but he informs us that this is one of the oldest tombs of all, and I believe him, for it looks so to me."
D.H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places, 1932