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Sovereignty
Photograph of the model of the statue ‘A Soberania’ by Leopoldo de Almeida, seen from the front. The final version of the statue was to be placed at the main entrance to the ‘Portuguese in the World’ pavilion for the Portuguese World Exhibition.
The use of the female figure as a representation of ‘sovereignty’ or other concepts of this kind was a strategy widely used during the Estado Novo, which goes back to the maternal and benevolent figure of Our Lady, helping to soften images that sought, despite everything, to emphasise the imposing nature of the Salazar regime and Portuguese colonialism.
A photograph of ‘A Soberania’ was also printed in the publication ‘Portugal 1940’, published a year after the exhibition by the National Propaganda Secretariat (SPN).