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He [Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver] opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.
— Barbara Hepworth
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Notes from Wikiquote Hepworth is here referring to Giovanni Ardini's remark that "marble changes colour under different people's hands"
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