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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. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
The portrait-format painting shows a statue of Justitia, or Lady Justice, on a base, which also forms the cornerstone of a stair railing.The statue facing the viewer, which is located in the left half and in the upper half of the picture, has the usual attributes of personified justice with the blindfold and the scales, in the left hand, the sword in the right hand and the classic long robe.
Unlike many representations of Lady Justice, Spirit of Justice wears no blindfold to symbolize blind justice. The statue measures 12.5 feet (150 inches) and was commissioned in 1933 at a cost of $7000, and has stood with Majesty of Law in the Great Hall since 1936.
Gieng created several if not most of the public fountains of Bern that were put up between 1542 and 1546. His presence in the city is sparsely attested in the surviving record: a 1543 Council diary entry reports a “Meyster Hans, Bildhower, im grossen Spital z'Herbrig sin und an des spittelmeisters tisch ässen” (“Master Hans, sculptor, residing in the great Hospital and eating at the ...
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.
The statue of Lady Justice on the Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen. The Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen (Fountain of Justice) is a 16th-century fountain in the Gerechtigkeitsgasse in the Old City of Bern, Switzerland. It is the only Bernese fountain to retain all original design elements, [1] and is listed as a cultural heritage of national significance. [2]
The captivating woman became the face of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network in 2004 and met with high-profile politicians. ... One of the biggest frauds in history pretended to be 9/11 ...
Its most striking feature is its rotunda, which occupies the center of the main hall on the first floor and extends past the second floor into the dome. A railing surmounted by a brass guardrail circles the rotunda on the second floor. On the exterior, a convex dome rises above an arcaded tower topped by a statue of blind Lady Justice with her ...