Law and the Humanities RomaTre 2009: Law and paintings and drawings and sculptures...

venerdì 24 aprile 2009

Law and paintings and drawings and sculptures...

These are some of the pictures that you proposed becuase they all are, in a particular way, linked to the idea of law and/or justice. You will find among them:

- "La vision de Hugo" by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlein.
- "Portrait of the lawyer Hugo Simons" by Otto Dix.
- Buon Governo frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
- "Les gens de justice" by Honoré Daumier.
- "Mercurio in volo" by Alessandro Romano.
- "Die Gerechtigkeit (The Justice), Tarot by Hans Rudolf Giger.

- "La consegna del Codice Rocco" (The delivery of the Rocco Code) by Giulio Bargellini (Ministry of Justice, Rome).

- "Electric Chair" by Andy Warhol.

- "Abu Ghraib 66" by Fernando Botero.

- "Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen" (Fountain of Justice), Berne, by Hans Gieng

- Lady Justice, Old Bailey, London

2 commenti:

Giorgia.c ha detto...: Hello!
After a little research I found an interesting portrait-sculpture: "Ritratto dell'Avvocato Gabriele Consolazio" (1940).
The author is Pietro Annigoni and his work of art is one of the few sculptures.
In 1947 the author,together with other artists,signed the "Manifesto dei Pittori Moderni della Realtà".
The work of art shows the face of lawyer in old age with wrinkles and few hair, a choice of the author that remember the ancient Roman concept that the value of a person is the story of his life and the portrait of older people is a symbol of a long and full life.
Concept that for me is valid also for the portrait of lawyer Consolazio.

Bye

Giorgia Ciucci; 7 maggio 2009 alle ore 20:45
Giorgia.c ha detto...: Hello!!
I would specify that what I wrote before isn't a comment, but since I couldn't follow the lectures of Professor Watt, I tried, however, to find something pertinent to the topic (naturally through other sources), and this work of art seemed to me a good signal.

Bye

Giorgia Ciucci; 9 maggio 2009 alle ore 11:43

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WELCOME!

At the Law Faculty of the RomaTre University there will be, for the second year, a "Law and Humanities" course (March-May 2009). It has been, and will also be in the future, an attempt to study law from a different perspective, or maybe, better, from many different perspectives.
The aim of this course, in fact, is not only to explore the fascinating, hopefully problematical interactions between Law and Literature, Law and Cinema, Law and Architecture and Law and Music, but also to carry out this investigation with the help of well known professors as well as PhD students, coming from all over the world. They will express themselves in the new "lingua franca", English, which is particularly suitable for a Law and Humanities course, as we only recently "imported" this field of study from the United States.
This blog will be the virtual place where students will find information about the course program, about the speakers c.v., about the suggested readings, about the final exam (which will consist in a little essay in English, that will be submitted and discussed in June or July).
Last year many students showed their interest commenting on the "Law and Humanities" blog (http://lawandhumanitiesroma3.blogspot.com/), continuing those stimulating debates that had begun during the lessons. This year each student will be asked to attend regularly the lessons and to take an active part to the debates, intervening during the classes and/or on the blog.
The pictures on the left and below show only some of the most famous characters created by writers and often reinvented by film directors that are inextricably connected with the legal world. Some of them were analysed during the lessons, others were "discovered" by the students in their essays: we hope next year's debates will be as exciting as they were last year!