Explore the Jurisprudence of this artwork.
Jurisprudence, too, is laden with anxiety: a condemned man is depicted surrounded by three female furies and a sea monster, while in the background, the three goddesses of Truth, Justice, and Law look on. They are shown as the Eumenides, punishing the condemned man with an octopus's deadly embrace. The conflict in Jurisprudence has been seen as "psycho-sexual".
Eumenides furies octopus