Justitia falls from a prancing horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1611 print The personification of Justitia is, with her attributes sword and balance, on a prancing horse that turns her from his back. She plunges to the earth. The horse has a globe on his head. The example for this print is part of a series of four in which the world is treated as a theme without self -control. Emblem no. 2 from Emblemata Saecularia, 1611 Oppenheim paper engraving Justice; 'Strength to the justice subject', 'justice', 'Recto justice', 'rigorous justi


Justitia falls from a prancing horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1611 print The personification of Justitia is, with her attributes sword and balance, on a prancing horse that turns her from his back. She plunges to the earth. The horse has a globe on his head. The example for this print is part of a series of four in which the world is treated as a theme without self -control. Emblem no. 2 from Emblemata Saecularia, 1611 Oppenheim paper engraving Justice; 'Strength to the justice subject', 'justice', 'Recto justice', 'rigorous justice', 'pity and violence subject to justice' (Ripa). Abstract ideas and concepts (+ emblematic replying of concept)


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