The ambitions of The Art of Law are substantial. The subtitle – ‘Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War’ – makes plain the breadth of the aspirations. The editors brought together European legal historians, art historians and semioticians to explore the import of shared and overlapping visual traditions. The introduction explains that the book grew out of an art exhibition held in Bruges, the site of the extraordinary 1498 Gerard David painting of the Judgment of Cambyses, and discussed in Chapters Two and Seven. The story comes from the Historiae, written by Herodotus around 440 BCE and describing the rule of King Cambyses, said to have lived some hundred years earlier. According to Herodotus, upon learning that the judge, Sisamnes, was corrupt, Cambyses ordered him flayed alive. Thereafter, Cambyses appointed Otanes, the son of Sisamnes, to serve as a jurist and forced the son to preside on a seat made from the skin of his father. From the thirteenth century onward, versions of this narrative were reiterated in European compilations of classical stories and, by the seventeenth century, regularly portrayed in European town halls. Dozens of images exist, but the vividness of the Judgment of Cambyses by the Flemish artist David is noteworthy. Competing interpretations exist of both the Cambyses story and the reasons for its

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法律的艺术：从中世纪到第一次世界大战的法律和正义的艺术表现和图像

《法律艺术》的雄心壮志是巨大的。副标题——“从中世纪到第一次世界大战的背景下法律和正义的艺术表现和图像学”——清楚地表明了这些愿望的广度。编辑们将欧洲法律史学家、艺术史学家和符号学家聚集在一起，探索共享和重叠的视觉传统的重要性。引言解释说，这本书源于在布鲁日举办的艺术展览，布鲁日是杰拉德·大卫 (Gerard David) 1498 年绘制的冈比西斯审判的非凡画作的所在地，并在第二章和第七章中进行了讨论。这个故事来自于希罗多德于公元前 440 年左右撰写的 Historiae，描述了据说生活在数百年前的冈比西斯国王的统治。根据希罗多德的说法，在得知法官西萨姆尼斯腐败后，冈比西斯命令他活剥皮。此后，冈比西斯任命西萨姆内斯的儿子奥塔内斯担任法学家，并强迫儿子主持由他父亲的皮制成的座位。从 13 世纪开始，这种叙事的版本在欧洲古典故事汇编中得到重申，并在 17 世纪定期出现在欧洲市政厅中。存在数十幅图像，但佛兰德艺术家大卫的坎比西斯审判的生动性值得注意。对冈比西斯的故事及其原因存在不同的解释 这种叙述的版本在欧洲的古典故事汇编中得到了重申，并且到了 17 世纪，在欧洲市政厅中经常被描绘出来。存在数十幅图像，但佛兰德艺术家大卫的坎比西斯审判的生动性值得注意。对冈比西斯的故事及其原因存在不同的解释 这种叙述的版本在欧洲的古典故事汇编中得到了重申，并且到了 17 世纪，在欧洲市政厅中经常被描绘出来。存在数十幅图像，但佛兰德艺术家大卫的坎比西斯审判的生动性值得注意。对冈比西斯的故事及其原因存在不同的解释