Built along a canal, this building features a quite unangelic angel at the entrance. Within are cyclists, bathers, dancers, and a great collection of forms and colors. What is this building?

gonnzo

"The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....Its most famous (or notorious) exhibit is the 1948 bronze "The Angel of the City" by Marino Marini, positioned at the front of the palazzo, facing the Grand Canal. It is rumoured that this nude and clearly excited horse rider was originally possessed of a screw-in demountable penis so that it could be removed in order to avoid offending passing VIPs. So many of the bronze phalluses were stolen (although this may be an urban myth), that the current member has been welded to the Angel's body." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Guggenheim_Collection Nov 04 09, 12:29 AM

queproblema

Yes, good job! I would suppose this "angel" represents "a guardian spirit or guiding influence" rather than a divine messenger. http://www.answers.com/topic/angel "In traditional Christianity angels are regarded as asexual and not belonging to either gender." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel I wonder what the Popes since 1948 have thought about this. Nov 04 09, 9:34 AM