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Detail of Michelangelo’s Pietà. The master searched Carrara for months to find the perfect block of “statuario,” a revered type of pure white stone. Smith Archive / Alamy In antiquity ...

The inaugural award is open to artists under the age of 35 for original paintings and works on paper created within the last ...

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Works by Velázquez, Titian and Picasso were offered at the fair, as well as a sculpture thought to be modelled by Michelangelo.