"On national symbols lies a central role, since visualize markedly values and the auto policy definition of a community content." (Jurt, 2012). The period that followed the coup of the Republic in Brazil was confusing and according to several historians and analysis of printed documents of the time a period of disputes where the image of the elite who had deposed the Emperor had to do this in order to give …show more content…
Marianne was a symbol of the French Republic, the young white woman with Greco-Roman dress, wearing the Phrygian cap symbol of freedom. First became known in the currencies circulating in Brazil. The painter's work Manuel Lopes Rodrigues, 1896 Republic Allegory is the Brazilian republic. This is the young woman dressed in a Greco-Roman white robe, white symbolizes peace for the nation but supported in his right hand a sword, symbol of the struggle she says she is also prepared for war and fight for their beliefs, is sitting on a throne that despite being a monarchist symbol here is where the Republicans should be the center of power at his feet branches of coffee and palm resembling a national nature identity, on the throne we can see the seal of the Republic, used to legitimize any official document, our Republic conveys the idea of solidity and calm. ., "The Republic proclaimed by last minute Republican without the direct participation of the people, must express its legitimacy through symbols. The essential official symbols would be the flag and the anthem, set m right time by decree "(Schwarcz 1999: 109). It was a difficult mission symbolically standardize the female figure in Brazil, even the state already being secular (post republic) the Catholic tradition was still very poor and for the people the female imagery connected to a protective symbolism was not Marianne but in Our Lady . Female symbols were a