Wall Street's Charging Bull artist dies in Italy

 

                                The statue is an iconic symbol of Wall Street.(AP: Mark Lennihan)

 

The artist who sculpted Charging Bull, the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Italy at age 80 on Friday evening.

Di Modica had installed the bronze bull sculpture in New York's financial district without permission on the night of December 16, 1989.  He left Sicily, at age 19 for Florence, where he studied at the Fine Arts Academy.

At the time of his death, he was working on prototypes for a twin horse sculpture he planned to make for his home town.