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...On Monte della Guardia, sweat collects in my lockdown beard as I hit the climb, which rises alongside the 17th-century Portico di San Luca, a terracotta covered walkway by which pilgrims — and tourists —...
...A weighty manner, heavy-lidded eyes and stern mouth communicate a lifetime’s experience; tendons and blood vessels visible under folding skin, individual hairs in the long beard, are masterstrokes of illusionism...
...Then he walked around the statue in silence for several minutes, occasionally stroking beards, his own and the lion’s. “Magnificent, isn’t he?” he muttered finally....
...Via Della Spiga 52, 20121 Milan (+3902-7600 1059; www.preattoni.it)....
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