Question

Explain the significance of portraying nation as female figure by the European artist of 18th and 19th century? In 3 points

Answer 1

while it is easy enough to represent a ruler through portrait or astatue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation . in other words they represented a country as if were a person. nations were then portrayed as female figures. the female form that was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular women in real life ; rather it sought to give the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. that is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.

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