WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The artists of the 18th and 19th centuries personified a nation as:
A
A particular woman to represent the nation
B
A female figure
C
A female figure as an allegory, to represent an abstract idea of a nation in concrete form
D
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Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During the French revolution, artists created allegory by personifying a female figure as a symbolism of Liberty, Justice, and Republic. Specific objects and symbols were used to personify this. Like this only, in the 19th century, a popular Christian name – Christened Marianne was shown as a symbol of People’s nation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 18th and 19th-century, artists began personifying a nation in an allegory. It means artists personified nation as a female figure not as a woman of real life but as a figure with physical existence and in concrete form. Thus, nation personified as a female figure became an allegory.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nations in the 18th and 19th century were visualized by the artists in a unique manner. They represented the nation as a person or a human being. The nations were mainly potrayed as female figures. The woman that was chosen to personify the nation was not any particular existing women in reality.

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