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The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War

The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War

Author: Stefan Huygebaert; Georges Martyn; Vanessa Paumen; Eric Bousmar; Xavier Rousseaux
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783319907864
Published In: October 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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The contributions to this volume were written by historians, legal historians and art historians, each using his or her own methods and sources, but all concentrating on topics from the broad subject of historical legal iconography. How have the concepts of law and justice been represented in (public) art from the Late Middle Ages onwards? Justices and rulers had their courtrooms, but also churches, decorated with inspiring images. At first, the religious influence was enormous, but starting with the Early Modern Era, new symbols and allegories began appearing.

Throughout history, art has been used to legitimise the act of judging, but artists have also satirised the law and the lawyers; architects and artisans have engaged in juridical and judicial projects and, in some criminal cases, convicts have even been sentenced to produce works of art. The book illustrates and contextualises the various interactions between law and justice on the one hand, and their artistic representations in paintings, statues, drawings, tapestries, prints and books on the other.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: Law, Justice and Art

Chapter 2. The Bruges exhibition `The Art of Law'

Chapter 3. Law's Manifestations: From Signs to Images - on Early Modern Legal Iconology

Chapter 4. Works of Art as Criminal Punishment in the Low Countries (14th-17th c.)

Chapter 5. "ut experiri et scire posset". Pictorial Evidence and Judicial Inquiry in Hans Fries' Kleiner Johannes Altar

Part II: Moralising Law and Justice Representations in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

Chapter 6. Changes in Late-Medieval Artistic Representations of Hell in the Last Judgment in North-Central Italy, ca.

1300-1400: A Visual Trick?

Chapter 7. Medieval Iconography of Justice in a European Periphery: The Case of Sweden, ca.

1250-1550

Chapter 8. Justitia, Examples and Allegories of Justice, and Courts in Flemish Tapestry, 1450-1550

Chapter 9. The Judgment of Cambyses: Multiple Sources and Post-David Nachleben of a Rich Iconographical Topic

Chapter 10. Multilayered Functions of Early Modern Court Room Equipment: Luneburg for Example

Part III: Lawyers and Justices: Their Books, Their Work, Their Symbols

Chapter 11. Civic Bodies and their Identification with Justice and Law in Early Modern Flemish Portraiture

Chapter 12. The Paradoxes of Lady Justice's Blindfold

Chapter 13. Lawyers and Litigants: The Corrupting Appeal and Effects of Civil Litigation in Hendrick Goltzius' Litis abusus

Chapter 14. Framing the Law. Legal Iconology of the Grotesque in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 15. The Mechanical Art of Rhetoric in an Ordinary Sixteenth Century German Formulary

Chapter 16. A Ghostly Corpse in the City? Spatial Configurations and Iconographic Representations of Capital Punishment in the `Belgian' space (16th-20th c.)

Chapter 17. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite ou la Mort. The Iconography of Injustice in the Work of Pierre Goetsbloets

Part IV: Justice Architecture and Decorations in the Long 19th Century

Chapter 18. Joseph-Jonas Dumont's Prison Gatehouses: architecture parlante in Neo-Tudor Style

Chapter 19. Experiencing Justice in the Cour d'Assises of Brabant (1893-1913). A Place of Education and Entertainment

Chapter 20. The Judge, the Artist and the (Legal) Historian: Theophile Smekens, Pieter Van der Ouderaa, Pieter Genard and the Antwerp cour d'assises

Chapter 21. Images of Justice in the Colonial Courts of British India. The Judicial Iconography of the Bombay High Court.

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