Sculptor Barry X Ball reinvented Michelangelo's "Pieta Rondanini," using 3-D scans, stone-chiseling robots and thousands of hours of handwork. Photo: Jeff Bush/The Wall Street JournalBarry X Ball’s latest work, “Pietà,” sits under spotlights at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy. It is in the same castle where the sculpture that inspired it—Michelangelo’s “Pieta Rondanini”—has been on display since the 1950s. But the sculpture, which cost nearly $1 million to produce, wasn’t X Ball’s only project during that time. He was also at work planning and building out a new studio in New York City’s Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 28, 2018 14:48 UTC