Justice

Title

Justice

Draughtsman

• Maarten van Heemskerck

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance
• Northern European Mannerism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet oben rechts (mit der Feder in Dunkelbraun): 4[?]

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1916

Genre

• allegory

Persons Shown

• Justitia

Primary

• 96A5(JUSTITIA) Justitia (justice) as Roman personification

Secondary

• 31A3191 blindfold
• 45C13(SWORD) hacking and thrusting weapons: sword
• 46B3311 scales

Alternative

• 11M44 Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues