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Visualising the nation subtopics and content

Answer 1

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Visualising The Nation. Visualising The Nation (i) Artitsts in the 18th and 19th centuries found a way out by personifying nation. In other words they represented a country as if it were a person. (ii) Nations were then portrayed as female figures. ... (iii) That is, the female figure became an allegory of the nation.

Answer 2

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(The Rise of Nationalism in Europe)

Visualising the Nation,

• Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, various symbols were used by the artists and revolutionaries to represent abstract concepts. These symbols were famous images from daily life that uneducated masses could quickly identify with.
• While revolutions, artists described a nation as a person. This personification gave life to an abstract idea like the nation.
• The mode of expressing an abstract idea like freedom or liberty into a symbol that may be a person or object is known as allegory. An allegory has a literal and symbolic sense. In the nineteenth century, French artists used female allegory to describe France. She was called Marianne. She expressed reason, liberty and the ideals of the republic.
• In Germany, the allegory for the nation was a female figure known as Germania. A broken chain drew the abolition of slavery.