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falloutfan12
falloutfan12
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What does, in detail, Michelangelo's Angel statue look like?

All I know is that her arms are folded and she sits on a blue velvet platform. Anyone have any other details?

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Posted by falloutfan12 on Sunday April 27, 2008 at 9:46 AM and tagged with angel, details, from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler, michelangelo.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    According to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' FAQ for visitors, that statue never existed.

    In the book, Claudia and Jamie spend much of their time trying to figure out if a statue of an angel that is on display in the Museum was created by the great In fact, artist Michelangelo. Although the Museum doesn't actually own any sculputures by Michelangelo, it does own a drawing by him called Studies for the Libyan Sibyl. He drew it in preparation for painting the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

    You can read an interview that Konigsburg did for the Met at the link below.

    Sources:
    http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/publications/pdfs/MusKid...
    http://www.metmuseum.org/visitor/faq_hist.htm

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    Posted by linda-allen on Sunday April 27, 2008 at 8:35 PM

  2. kalyn405
    kalyn405 Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    If you remember in the story, Jamie says that the workers might have been drinking beer by the judging of the blue velvet, also the three rings with the m in the middle second ring marking the owner of the statue, "MichalAngelo!" Answer it?

     

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    Posted by kalyn405 on Tuesday April 14, 2009 at 7:40 AM

  3. yoyo-meme18
    yoyo-meme18

    Michelangelo DID sculpt Angel . Read the ending and you will see.

    and without talking about the book,Angel doesnt really exist.

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    Posted by yoyo-meme18 on Monday July 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM