Question

How had the female figures become an allegory of the nation during nineteenth century Europe? Analyse.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Artists, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often made efforts to represent a country as if it were a person. The female figures were chosen to express an abstract idea of a nation. These female figures, thus, became an allegory of the nation.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

• Artists found a way out to represent a country in the form of a person.

• Then nations were portrayed as female figures.

• The female figure was chosen to personify the nation did not stand for any particular woman in real life.

• It gave the abstract idea of the nation a concrete form.

• Thus, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.

• During the French Revolution artists used the formal allegory to portray idea such as Liberty, Justice and the Republic.

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