Dante

"Lawrence is not a simple illustrator of Dante. He does not picture individual scenes using the extraordinary images that Dante in the past has given to Gustav Dore and so many others. Lawrence’s own long and difficult experience with Dante’s poetry is rendered rather in different, idiosyncratic ways. Look at the works individually and you might not think of the poet at all. Taken together, they show a painter’s powerful engagement with the Florentine master of six hundred years ago."

Sir Peter Stothard, Editor ofThe Times Literary Supplement (London, 2006)