Question

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

Answer 1

While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or astatue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists inthe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out bypersonifying a nation. In other words they represented a country asif it were a person. Nations were then portrayed as female figures.The female form that was chosen to personify the nation did notstand for any particular woman in real life; rather it sought to givethe abstract idea of the nation a concrete form. That is, the femalefigure became an allegory of the nation.
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