Sculptor aesthetic

Michelangelo first arrived in the Tuscan village of Pietrasanta in the 16th century. Since that time, generations of artists—from Henry Moore to Isamu Noguchi to Damien Hirst—have followed in the Renaissance master’s footsteps, each employing the Italian region’s exquisite marble for their own works. Irish sculptor Kevin Francis Gray joined their ranks in 2006, when he first traveled to Pietrasanta in search of a workshop. He set up a meeting with the Giannoni family—marble artisans with a…

Hands of sculptor mold clay beautiful graceful stature of male character with instrument in workshop