“Slowly but surely, despite concern in the international art world over whether anyone should be touching one of the world’s most admired statues at all, Cinzia Parnigoni has stripped 130 years of grime from the statue’s perfectly proportioned left elbow, providing a glimpse of what is to come. By spring next year, in time for his 500th birthday, she aims to have cleaned every nook and cranny of this famous but filthy marble man.”