Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Warner, Marina. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520227330.

Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between womens historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.