Law and art in the 19th Century

This volume deals with the figurative representation of law and power in the 19^th Century, emphasising the importance of images and, thus, of the iconographic representation of themes and concepts pivotal to law in 19th-century Europe.

The twenty collected contributions examine multiple topics connected to different forms of artistic expression and investigate how painting, sculpture, and architecture reproduced a peculiar vision of law and power, sometimes to amplify its importance, sometimes to formulate an open critique.

The volume analyses a series of case studies to focus, with a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, on the ways in which the emergence of a new juridical experience in 19th-century Europe led to the replacement – or re-semanticisation – of symbols and images traditionally associated with law and power, in order to express and propose to the society of the time a new conception of the law.

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Sono presenti nell’opera testi diversi in italiano, inglese e francese.

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Giovanni Rossi is Full Professor of Legal History at the University of Verona, Department of Legal Sciences.

Pietro Schirò is a Post-doctoral Research fellow in Legal History at the University of Verona, Department of Legal Sciences.