The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Mid

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: Lüneburg 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. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité 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: Théophile Smekens, Pieter Van der Ouderaa, Pieter Génard 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.