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The story behind Armani Sculpture Masterpieces

When infant Giuseppe Armani could hold a rattle, he decided to cast it aside in favor of a pencil. What young Armani needed as he grew up was a bundle of pencils because he loved to draw. His all-day obsession was to draw anyone and anything -- and nothing or no one was off limits.

His parents and teachers picked up on Giuseppe's talent shortly before he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. The schooling came to an abrupt end due to his father's sudden death. Armani's family needed him to come back home to help out. Though his art school classes were over, drawing wasn't. At the outset he was a primarily self-educated and learned from books, library sources and art works in the Pisa area.

Armani's career began when his parish priest submitted his sculpture of a male torso to an art exhibition in his hometown of Calci (near Pisa). The Pisa gallery people were so taken with Armani's extraordinary anatomical talent that they offered him a permanent job in their studio/gallery, which was in the shadows of the nearby Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was there that he developed an amazing talent to realistically reproduce a wide range of subjects with vibrant details of life and character.

While working in Pisa, he traveled often to Siena and Florence to study the Renaissance masterpieces that included Michelangelo's David and Luca Della Robbia's marble plaque depicting St. Peter walking out of prison.

In the Pisa studio, Armani experimented with wood, clay, alabaster and marble to create his own artistic muse, causing his reputation to soon spread throughout Italy. Increasing numbers of enthusiasts visited the art gallery to see his breathtaking Capodimonte creations.