How did the artists of the time of the French Revolution personified liberty?
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The artists of the time of the French Revolution personified liberty with a female figure like Marianne. Before the French Revolution, French Monarch was embodied in masculine figures. So the Marianne, a female figure was used by artists to personify liberty and reason. Marianne is the national symbol of France which symbolizes victory of the Republic.
During French revolution, the artists used female figure to personify liberty.
Marianne was one such female figure that was used to personify liberty during the French Revolution and is till date used in France as a personification of liberty and reason. Marianne portrayed the "Goddess of Liberty". Marianne is used as a national symbol of France.
The reason why male figures were not used to personify liberty was because the male figures represented and personified something more concrete like the social classes of men.