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 ...

Occupying the Piazza del Duomo in the heart of the city ... iconic dome and the intricate marble statues on its facade staring down at you. The red-tiled cupola was designed by Brunelleschi ...

There are more than 3,400 statues on the Duomo, on which construction began in 1386. They are carved from the dazzling pink-white marble from Candoglia quarry near Lake Maggiore northwest of Milan ...

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 World War II ...