Personification of the Americas
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Personification of the Americas
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Early European personifications of America, meaning the Americas, typically come from sets of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. These were all that were then known in Europe. The addition of America made these an even more attractive group to represent visually, as sets of four could be placed around all sorts of four-sided objects, or in pairs along the facade of a building with a central doorway. A set of loose conventions quickly arose as to the iconography of the person
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Early European personifications of the Americas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification_of_the_Americas
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2024-02-27T22:19:34Z
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