Milan, Italy, Dec 17, 2024 (AFP) - Restoring Milan's Duomo, one statue at a time

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2024-12-17

In a workshop in the Milan suburbs, sculptor Giovanni Calderino completes his latest project -- a battered statue from the top of the Italian city's gothic cathedral, and its gleaming white replacement. Depicting a bearded man wearing a tunic, the marble statue has adorned one of the Duomo's 135 spires for two centuries. But decades of harsh weather, pollution and the bombings of the Second World War have taken their toll, leaving it discoloured......

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