How did artists personify the nation in 18and 19th century
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They represented the nation as a person or a human being. The nations were mainly potrayed as female figures. The woman that was chosen to personify the nation was not any particular existing women in reality. It was just used as an entity to give nations a concrete form.
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18th and 19th century artist's personification of a nation in allegories :
(1) Artists represented nations as a female figure which did not stand for any particular woman but gave the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form.
(2) Thus, female figures became an allegory of a nation. During the French Revolution, artists used female figures to portray ideas such as liberty, justice and republic through symbols.
(3) In France, she was christened Marianne underlining the idea of a people's nation with characteristics drawn from those of liberty and republic.
(4) Her statues were erected in public places to remind the people of unity and persuade them to identify with it. Her images were also marked on coins and stamps.
(5) In Germany, Germania became the allegory of the nation wearing a crown of German oak leaves, as the German oak stands for heroism.