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who were Marianne and Germania?What was the importance of the way in which they were portrayed?​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Marianne and Germania were female allegories invented by artists in the nineteenth century in France and Germany respectively to represent the abstract idea of the nation in concrete form.This was a way to personify a nation.

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Female figure in France was christened Marianne as a popular name. The underlying idea behind portraying Marianne(a popular Christian name) with symbols of Liberty and Republic (Red cap, cockade and tricolour) was to represent the Franch nation as people's nation.Statues of Marianne were erected in public places to remind the public of the national symbol of unity and to persuade them to identify with it.Marianne images were also marked on coins and stamps.

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'Germania' was an allegory of the German nation.Germiana of Germany was depicted by artist Philip Veit in 1848.She was represented standing against a background where beams of sunlight shine through the national tricolour flag; wearing a crown of oak leaves and holding an unsheathed sword in her hand.The underlying idea was to symbolise the Germans as heroic.

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