Academisch congres
(Groeningemuseum, Bruges, oct. 2016-févr. 2017)
The Art of Law
Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Bruges (Belgique), Groeningemuseum
van 16 t/m 18 januari ‘17
Présentation (flemisch)
Het Vlaams onderzoekscentrum voor de kunst in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, het Groeningemuseum, het Instituut voor Rechtsgeschiedenis van de Universiteit Gent en de Belspo Interuniversity Attraction Pole Justice and Populations: The Belgian experience in international perspective 1795-2015 (2012-2017) organiseren een driedaags congres rond de iconografie van recht en justitie: “The Art of Law. Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War”. Meer dan 30 academici brengen hun onderzoeksresultaten met betrekking tot de functie van kunst in de uitvoering van recht en justitie van de late middeleeuwen tot en met de negentiende eeuw. De voertaal is Engels, al zullen enkele presentaties in het Frans gegeven worden.
Présentation (angl.)
Recent years have witnessed a clear rise in scholarship on law and the visual, mostly originating in the wider field of law and the humanities. The conference The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War wishes to contribute to this research by focusing on imagery in its legal and art historical contexts. The program brings together original and interdisciplinary scholarship that questions the role of art in the practice of law, jurisprudence and justice administration from the Late Middle Ages through the Nineteenth Century.
The conference will be held in the Groeningemuseum, Bruges on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, 2017, during the exhibition De Kunst van het Recht. Drie Eeuwen Gerechtigheid in Beeld (The Art of Law. Three Centuries of Justice Depicted) at the Groeningemuseum (28 October, 2016 – 5 February, 2017). This art exhibition, curated by Vanessa Paumen and Tine Van Poucke, features about 130 artworks from over 30 national and international museums and libraries and will focus on themes related to justice as expressed in artworks of various media from about 1450 through 1750.
The conference The Art of Law is the closing conference of the IAP Justice and Populations’s WP4: Long-term (Self-)Representations of Justice (LongTermJust).
The conference is supported by
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS
- Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
- Flemish Research Centre for the Arts of the Burgundian Netherlands
- IAP Justice and Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective
Programme
Monday 16 January, 2017
Medieval Legal Iconography
9:00-9:20 - Registration & Morning Coffee
9:20-9:30 - Word of Welcome by Till-Holger Borchert (director Musea Brugge)
9:30- 9:40 - Introduction by the organizers
9:40-11:10 - Session I: The Last Judgment (XIV-XVI century)
Chair: Carolin Behrmann (KHI Florence)
- Clare Sandford-Couch (Northumbria University): Changes in Late-Medieval Artistic Representations of Hell in Central and Northern Italy: a Visual Trick?
- Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): The Role of Church Paintings of the Last Judgement as Images of Justice in a Lay-dominated Legal System, Sweden 1350-1600
- Edina Eszenvi (Rome Art Program): The Psychostasis in Medieval Hungary
Discussion
11:10-11:40 -
Coffee break
11:40-12-10 - Introduction to the Exhibition by Curator Vanessa Paumen
12:10-13:30 -
Lunch break
13:30-15:30 - Session II: Legal Imagery in the City (XIV-XV century)
Chair: Vanessa Paumen (exhibition curator/Groeningemuseum)
- Caroline O. Fowler (Yale University): Group Portraiture in Early Netherlandish Justice Paintings
- Nadine Mai (University of Hamburg): Healing the City with Blood – Jerusalem as a juridical Metaphor in 15th century Bruges
- Tamara Golan (Johns Hopkins University): “ut experiri et scire posset ”: Hans Fries and the Forensic Gaze in the Kleiner Johannes Altar
- Bertrand Cosnet (Université de Tours/CESR): The Personifications of Justice in Italian City-states: from Equity to Good Government
Discussion
15:30-16:00 -
Coffee break
16:00-17:30 - Session III: Legal Iconography in Illuminated Manuscripts (XIII-XVI century)
Chair: Clare Sandford-Couch (Northumbria University)
- Marina Vidas (Royal Library Copenhagen): Images of Justice in Venetian Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Illuminated Documents and Books
- Egbert Koops (Leiden University): The Penis mightier than the Sword. Phallic Imagery in a Bolognese Legal Manuscript
- Andrew Murray (independent scholar): The Montpellier Parchment and the Sovereignty of Justice in the Later Valois Burgundy State
Discussion
(12:30-18:00 Groeningemuseum & The Art of Law exhibition accessible for participants)
Tuesday 17 January, 2017
Early Modern Legal Iconography
9:30-11:00 - Session IV: Justitia’s Early Modern Complexity
Chair: Georges Martyn (Ghent University)
- Adriano Prosperi (Scuola Normale Superiori Pisa): Blindfolded Justice
- Valérie Hayaert (IHEJ Paris): Justice’s blindfold: Fascia or Fascis? Or Both?
- Guy Delmarcel (Department of Art History, KULeuven): Justitia. Examples and Allegories of Justice and Tribunals in Flemish Tapestry. 1450-1550
Discussion
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-13:00 - Session V: Representations and Power
Chair: Valérie Hayaert (IHEJ, Paris)
- Paul De Win (independent scholar): Art et Droit Pénal
- Beatrijs Wolters van der Weij (Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels): Happy Are Those who Observe Justice, who Do Righteousness at all Times.’ Civic Bodies and their Identification with Justice and Law in Early Modern Flemish Portraiture
- Frederik Dhondt (VUB/UA/UGent/FWO): Diplomacy, Law and the Representation of Power. The Iconography of Peace from Louis XIV to Louis XV
Discussion
13:00-14:00 -
Lunch break
14:00-15:30 - Session VI: Early Modern Court Room Decorations
Chair: Samuel Mareel (Museum Hof van Busleyden/KMSKA/Ghent University)
- Christian-Nils Robert (University of Geneva): Setting the Stage for Justice. An Enduring Anachronism
- Ann-Kathrin Hubrich (University of Hamburg): The Scenography of Early Modern Court Rooms – Lüneburg for example
- Raf Verstegen (KU Leuven): The Judgement of Cambyses. The Multiple Sources of a Rich Iconographical Topic
Discussion
15:30-16:00 -
Coffee break
16:00-17:30 - Session VII: Commenting Law in Early Modern
Chair: Pedro Barbas-Homem (Universidade de Lisboa)
- Gustav Kalm (Columbia University): The Rhetoric of Letterform in an Ordinary 16th Century German Formulary
- Alain Wijffels (Leiden/Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve/CNRS): Lawyers and Litigants: Corruption of Justice in H. Goltzius’s Litis Abusus
- Felix Jäger (KHI Florence): Legal Iconology of the Grotesque in the 16th Century
Discussion
18:00-19:00 - Key Note Lecture
- Carolin Behrmann (KHI Florence): Law’s Manifestations: From Signs to Images – on Early Modern Legal Iconology
19:30-21:00 - Conference Dinner (Walking Dinner)
Wednesday 18 January, 2017
Legal Iconography in the Long XIXth Century
9:30-11:30 - Session VIII: XIX-century Legal Architecture and Topography
Chair: Eric Bousmar (USL)
- Xavier Rousseaux (UCL) & Jérôme De Brouwer (ULB): A Ghostly Corpse in the City? Spatial Configurations and Iconographic Representations of Capital Punishment in the ‘Belgian’ Space (XVI-XX Century)
- Jozefien Feyaerts (Ghent University): The ‘Architecture Parlante’ of 19th-Century Prison Gate Houses
- Gaëlle Dubois (UCL) & Amandine De Burchgraeve (UCL): Experiencing Justice in the Cour d‘Assisses (of Brabant): A Place of Education, Representation and Entertainment
- Rahela Khorakiwala (Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi): Images of Justice in the Colonial Courts of British India: A Focus on the Judicial Iconography of the Bombay High Court Built in 1878
Discussion
11:30-12:00 - Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Session IX: Imagery of Judges and Trials in XIX-century France
Chair: t.b.c.
- Leslie J. Moran (Birkbeck): Carte de Visit and the Judicial Image
- Ruth Herz (University of London): The Judge’s Perspective: Drawings from the Bench
Discussion
13:00-14:00 - Lunch break
14:00-15:30 - Session X: Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Modern Legal Iconography
Chair: Nathalie Tousignant (USL)
- Brecht Deseure (Passau University/Free University Brussels): Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ou la Mort. The Iconography of Injustice in the Work of Pierre Goetsbloets
- Paul Hahnenkamp (University of Vienna): Depicting Human Rights: A Mirror of Constitutional and Legal Changes within Europe
- Stefan Huygebaert (Ghent University/FWO): The Iconology of Belgian CriminalLaw
Discussion
15:30-16:00 -
Coffee break
– end of the conference The Art of Law –
16:00-18:00 IAP General Meeting Assembly and Book Launch
- Book launch: Les mots de la Justice/Het verhaal van Justitie (IAP Justice & Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective)
- IAP General Meeting Assembly
Reception