Mar 17, 2015 · $8,000 Was Spent by the U.S. Justice Department For a Drapery To Cover A Female Statue with an Exposed Breast-Truth!. Summary of eRumor: This eRumor says it is an open letter written by poet Claire Braz-Valentine to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft regarding the decision to cover a female statue with an exposed breast at the justice department.
Jun 25, 2005 · WASHINGTON — With barely a word about it, on Friday workers at the Justice Department removed the blue drapes that had famously covered …
Spirit of Justice is a 1933 cast aluminum statue depicting Lady Justice that stands on display along with its male counterpart Majesty of Justice in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice. The statue is of a woman wearing a toga-like dress with one breast revealed and arms …
The statues -- one a woman with one breast bare -- were covered up in 2002, supposedly on the orders of One of the U.S. government`s most notorious cover-ups has ended. The Washington Post reports the blue drapes were removed on Friday from …
The statues were hidden by curtains on Nov. 20, when President Bush came to the Justice Department to name the building after the assassinated former attorney general, Robert Kennedy. Comstock said the Justice Department bought the drapes to avoid having to rent them every time the agency had a formal event.Jan 29, 2002
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.
Her being semi-nude is a form of heroic nudity. Basically it just tells us that she's more than human. That's also why she's depicted as being taller than the men. Heroic figures are shown with one exposed breast at times simply because they often wear a toga or toga-like dress, or a dress with straps.
Since the 16th century, Lady Justice has often been depicted wearing a blindfold. The blindfold represents impartiality, the ideal that justice should be applied without regard to wealth, power, or other status.
The drapes are reported to have been hanging since Monday, drawing to a close the sport of photographers who infamously sprawled on the floor to snap the former Attorney General Edwin Meese holding aloft his report on pornography in front of the female statue.
Her male counterpart, the "Majesty of Law", is sculpted with a cloth strategically placed around his waist. Photographers have gone to great lengths in the past to capture the scantily-clad female statue in the background as the Justice Department's top brass addressed the world's press.
The female, art-deco "Spirit of Justice" statue, with one breast exposed, is located on the podium in the department's ornate Great Hall where news conferences are often held. One fully-exposed breast protrudes from her toga garment.
Mr Ashcroft has been photographed speaking in front of her several times since the 11 September attacks. Hired drapes have previously hung in front of both statues for formal events, such as President George W Bush's visit to name the building after assassinated former attorney-general, Robert Kennedy. Visual harmony.
On May 7, 2007, National Journal ' s "Inside Washington" column reported that it was Monica Goodling who ordered drapes to be placed over the partially nude Spirit of Justice statue during Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General.
Majesty of Justice. The male statue, Majesty of Justice, is bare-chested. The entrance to the Rayburn House Office Building also features a sculpture entitled The Majesty of the Law .
The statue was commissioned in 1933 at a cost of $7,275 (equivalent to $145,400 in 2020), and was created by C. Paul Jennewein, who created a total of 57 sculptural elements for the building. Like most of the artwork and fixtures in the building, it is in an Art Deco style. Unlike many representations of Lady Justice, Spirit of Justice wears no blindfold, which is often utilized to symbolize blind justice .
Spirit of Justice is a 1933 cast aluminum statue depicting Lady Justice that stands on display along with its male counterpart Majesty of Justice in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In 1986, the statue was seen behind then–Attorney General Edwin Meese III as he discussed a report on pornography. In 2002, under John Ashcroft, curtains were installed blocking the statue from view during speeches. The curtains were first used on a rental basis during the administration of Dick Thornburgh.
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