Most depictions of Lady Justice portray her with a blindfold and holding a double-edged sword in the right hand and scales dangling from the left. However, beneath the central arch on the Palace of Justice’s facade in this sculpture of lustitia. This is Latin for Justice. The statue portrays the Roman goddess with the sword but holding a book of law on the left. Look closely and you will also see two images of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome. Typically, this iconic Roman image shows the infants together. Yet here they are apart, perhaps alluding to their quarrel and the subsequent murder of Remus.
