How does The Blessed Mother elucidate its Description?
The sculpture depicts Mary during her assumption into heaven. She is standing straight upwards, with her chest tilted to the proper left. Her arms are extended, with her proper left arm pointed downward diagonal and her proper right arm pointing upwards diagonal. Her eyes are closed and her head is slightly tilted forward. Mary is shown to wear a blue, white, and light blue robe, which falls all the way to the ground, covering her feet and most of her arms. Three angels are hidden in the robe. Her head is covered by the top of the robe, which has a marbled pale orange-green color. She wears a white shawl, which is draped over both arms and falls almost to the ground. She has white skin and gold speckling is seen throughout the piece. There are three long-stem roses made of metal lying on the ground in front of her. They are affixed to a piece of metal.Originally, the piece was going to be made of cement. The artists changed their minds in order to experiment, and the sculpture was made of scagliola with steel reinforcement. The artists chose to use scagliola to give the sculpture an appearance of being made of marble. The sculpture stands bolted to a covered platform structure, which was completed within four days, and is made of steel with a rubber roof. The sculpture, in total, weighs 700 pounds.
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