“Although the blindfold has come to be valorized, it was once seen—as cartoonists often use it today — to denote a disabled Justice, blind to or hiding from the truth.”
Blind to the Light and Blindfolded by the Fool
- The Blindfolded Justice in the Amsterdam Tribunal
- “Open the eyes that are blind”
- Synagoga: Blind to the “Light” of Christianity
- Justice and Judges as Fools
- Alciatus’s Theban Judges and Ripa’s Injunctions: “A Steely Gaze,” the Eye of the God, and Bandaged Eyes
- Brugel’s Justice (or Injustice?)
- Bamhoudere’s Janus-Faced Justice
- Turning a Critical Eye
Transcendent, Wide-Eyed, and Amidst the Animals
- Raphael’s Glory of Justice
- Symbolism’s Caprice: The Many Animals of Justice
- The Proud and the Dead Bird: Giulio Romano’s Justice with an Ostrich in the Vatican and Luca Giordano’s Justice Disarmed.
- Sheep and Foxes, Dogs and Serpents: Rubens’s Wide-Eyed Justice
The Past as Prologue: Sighted or Blindfolded, and Tall
- Venice as Justice, Justice as Venice
- Across the English Channel
- Queen Anne as Justice
- The Lord Mayor’s Show
- Dublin’s Justice
- Old Bailey’s Open-Eyed and Wide-Eyed and Wide-Armed Justice
- Across the Atlantic Ocean: Kansas’s Sharp Eyed Prairie Falcon and Vancouver’s Peaceful Justice
A Resilient, Albeit Invented, Tradition