The Judgement of Junius Brutus
Also titled Het oordeel van Junius Brutus
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
c. 1650 - c. 1652
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 72 cm x width 83.5 cm x depth 20 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
The most elaborately ornamented space in the Town Hall was the Vierschaar (Tribunal), where death sentences were pronounced. Three marble reliefs above the seats of the judges illustrate exemplary verdicts from antiquity or the Bible. This is the model for the relief of the Judgement of Brutus, a Roman consul who had his own sons beheaded for conspiring against him – a paragon of justice.
