Question

Why did female figure became allegory?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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

Answer 2

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.