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The five jurists, as later centuries imagined them
A composite of five later depictions of the jurists named in the Law of Citations: Papinian, Paulus, Ulpian, Modestinus and Gaius. No contemporary portrait of any of them survives.
Unverifieddraft

- Creator
- Liam Wilkinson
- Medium
- photograph
- Rights
- own work
No contemporary portrait of any of the five survives, so every image here is a later imagining. That is the point of using them together: the Law of Citations made these five authoritative by name, and the faces attached to those names were supplied afterwards by people who had never seen them.
Itemising the two statue photographs and crediting their photographers is outstanding. The rest is clear.
Links to
- used in
- For the Love of Law
Referenced by
- illustrated by
- For the Love of Law
Source: knowledge/images/jurists-strip.md
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