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ICONOCRACY Corpus
Female Allegory in the History of Legal Culture (19th-20th centuries)
Doctoral research corpus from PPGD/UFSC cataloguing female allegorical figures with juridical-political function across multiple countries and periods.
Contents
corpus-data.json: 89 catalogued items with full metadata- Each item includes: title, date, period, creator, institution, source archive, country, medium, motifs, description, URLs, ABNT & Chicago citations, and tags
Corpus Statistics
By Country (89 items)
| Country | Items |
|---|---|
| France | 20 |
| United States | 12 |
| Germany | 11 |
| Brazil | 10 |
| Netherlands | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 6 |
| Portugal | 5 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Austria | 2 |
| Spain | 2 |
| Others | 5 |
By Support Type
Prints/engravings, photographs, sculptures, oil paintings, political posters, lithographs, drawings, decorative panels, architectural elements, and manuscripts.
Period Coverage
1800-2000, with priority concentration in 1880-1920.
Iconocratic Regimes
The corpus is organized around three iconocratic regimes:
- FUNDACIONAL -- state foundation, independence, constitutions. Dynamic allegorical body, semi-nude, revolutionary.
- NORMATIVO -- stabilized bureaucratic supports (stamps, coins). Controlled body, dressed, frontal.
- MILITAR -- war, imperialism, mobilization. Morphological ENDURECIMENTO of the allegorical body.
Key Iconclass Code
48C51 -- feminist iconography
Source Archives
Items sourced from: Gallica/BnF, Library of Congress, British Museum, Europeana, Brasiliana Fotografica, BNDigital, Rijksmuseum, Belvedere Wien, Museo del Prado, Arquivo Nacional (BR), and others.
Schema
Each record follows the project's master-record schema with fields for:
- Identification (id, title, date, creator, institution)
- Classification (country, medium, motifs, period)
- Analysis (ten purification indicators for ENDURECIMENTO assessment)
- Traceability (URLs, IIIF links, ABNT/Chicago citations)
Citation
VANZIN, Ana. Iconocracy: Female Allegory in the History of Legal Culture
(19th-20th c.). Doctoral thesis, PPGD/UFSC. 2026.
License
CC-BY-4.0. Metadata only; original images belong to their respective institutions.
Related Resources
- Repository: anavvanzin/iconocracy-corpus
- Interactive dashboard: see
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