Caprese Michelangelo is a village and comune in Arezzo province, (Tuscany, Italy) (43° 38′ 36″ N 11° 59′ 15″ E) where the famous artist Michelango di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born. It is about 100km east of Florence In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... Arezzo is a city in central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. ... Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Michelangelo (full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ...
These led to the commission by De Beers of London for the design of a piece of diamond jewelry.
In '83, he was commissioned by the Compagnia del Paiolo of Florence, of which he is a member, to create the altar and ambone in the chapel built in homage to Michelangelo in the native city of the great artist, CapreseMichelangelo.
The subject of the sculpture, which is entitled "Un Paese Racconta" (A City Tells its Story), is the history of an ancient suffering, all too real even today, of mothers praying and awaiting the return of sons from the war.
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