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

Vanessa Paumen Announcement
Location
Belgium
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, European History / Studies, Law and Legal History

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) (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.

Contact Information

Vanessa Paumen                                                          

Flemish Research Centre for the Arts                    

of the Burgundian Netherlands                              

Vanessa.Paumen@Brugge.be              

 

Stefan Huygebaert

Ghent Legal History Institute/FWO

Ghent University

Minerva Research Group The Nomos of Images

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut)

Stefan.Huygebaert@UGent.be

 

 

Contact Email
Vanessa.Paumen@Brugge.be