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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold.
While the cradle image in Intolerance embraces the allegorical tradition in its most conservative intentions, Porter on the contrary alienates the familiar representation of Justice as a blindfolded woman holding a horizontal pair of scales by showing the blindfold discovering one eye and the scales tipped. [6]
The woman is holding a pair of scales, as a symbol of justice, but her eyes are closed—a reference to the traditional depiction of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold, but also a suggestion that justice is degenerating into a self-righteous unwillingness to see an obvious injustice.
Shortly after, the women were blindfolded and seated in pairs at tables. Then the men, who were already wearing blindfolds, were carefully guided down a flight of stairs and seated at a table in ...
The scene is lighted from a window and from the street-door on the left, outside of which stands a child with a whip. Through the door are seen the trees by the canal and the sunlit houses on the other side of the street, which is the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. Signed "P d' hooch f. 1670"; canvas, 27 inches by 23 1/2 inches.
People Are Joking Woman Is the ‘Favorite’ After Seeing Dogs at Her Clinic Watch Her Leave for the Day. Genny Glassman. Updated November 8, 2024 at 1:35 PM. CC Evgenii Bakhchev/Shutterstock.
The law permits the military to detain people for 45 days without an arrest warrant, after which they must be transferred to Israel’s formal prison system (IPS), where over 9,000 Palestinians ...
Spirit of Justice is a 1933 cast aluminum statue depicting Lady Justice that stands on display along with its male counterpart Majesty of Justice in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice.