216 attributes and parading on the sides of the picture of the autocratic monarch Charles XII (Fig. 18). In conclusion some portraits of jurists associated with seventeenth century Sweden were presented, namely Hugo Grotius, Johannes Loccenius, Samuel Pufendorf, and Claes Rålamb. Theseries shows thedevelopment froma realistic humanist portrait to an aristocratic Baroque portrait with allegorical features. The 1734 edition of the law texts appears not to have produced any new iconographyor eventohave inspired the continuedusageof theallegorical types of picturessanctioned by tradition. The situationwas intheprocessof modification; at the end of the seventeenth century the impressions ofJustitia disappeared from the covers of the lawbooks where she had earlier been a prominent feature. The functional capability of the older pictorial concepts nowbegan to be questioned on a broad scale. The demand no longer arose to summarize law texts and documents in pictorial form. The venerable tradition of legal pictures begantoebb withreflections survivingonlyinthedecoration of court houses, in the production of medals, and in the seals of the Faculties of law.
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