How did the artists of the time of the French revolution personify liberty
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Nationalism required personalizing a nation. Countries were often portrayed as female to give shape to an abstract idea. Often cultural icons such as trees or aspirational values such as liberty and justice needed icons and preferably female figures to get the message across. The female figure became an allegory of the nation.
E.g. under French Revolution, Justice is generally a blindfolded woman carrying a pair of weighing scales.
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During the 19th century, French Artists found a new way to personify liberty that is an allegory. An allegory is way in which an abstract idea is personified by a thing or a person. An allegory has two meaning : literary and symbolic. In France the allegory was Marianne. She was not a real women but stood for republic and liberty. She also stood for freedom.