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The Judge Bias Weeps
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The judge Bias weeps as the death sentence is read to a condemned man. The condemned pleads with the judge, but Bias lets justice prevail despite his emotion. Below the image, two four-line verses in Latin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe rechter Bias huilt. 1606. Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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