Whilst this man did indeed use power tools, the skill he possess is mindblowing. Any body that doesn't work with their hands does not realise the 'touch' and 'feel' thats only years and years of experience bring. This man has skill that most do not possess, only when you can do the same can you criticise. Hats off to him.

Is it me or was the opening music the Kingdom Hearts theme? Also, what beautiful skills being displayed here! I’m an artist, not with stone though, and watching these amazing crafters at work brought tears to my eyes. It is a wonderful blessing to be able to create where there once was nothing, to be able to bring the images of the mind into reality. I love drawing so much!

The craftsmanship and the art of carving stone into _splendid_ pieces of art is breathtakingly amazing. All the intricate details. Am surprised that these men are not muscular, even with power tools it still seems hard work turning marble into something marvelous.

How could you ever pay this Gentleman a compliment that is fitting for the skill he has. I cannot find any words to describe his outstanding ability to produce work beyond perfection.

Viva Italia 💚🤍❤️ la sua cultura, la sua lingua, la sua storia. Il suo patrimonio ❤❤❤

Magnifico documentario, complimenti allo scultore, grazie per il video.

De grands artistes doués d'un immense talent. Réussir à reconstituer ces chefs d'oeuvre de l'histoire, il faut le faire. Bravo!

I wish this guy would wear a mask to guard his lungs, it's a rarity to find artists this good.

Imagine having that much skill & patience to sculpt something as beautiful as that. I have never been jealous of anyone but I am certainly envious of the skills used here. Fantastic 👍👍👍👍

Obras de arte que durarán siglos y será recordado por siempre, maestro. Enhorabuena.

Imagine that work made with no electricity and anything but a hammer and chisel... now you understand the magnificence of Michelangelo or Bernini

I so enjoyed watching. I've been a wet clay sculptor most of my life but took a stone carving class a few yrs. ago. It was euphoric! I was covered in it and felt amazing! Kudos to you!!

I love seeing artists at work! 😍❤️ The dedication of making a beautiful piece gets me every time.

Finally!! an honest contemporary stone carving video that shows drilling(pointing) to be the primary means of copying form from a plaster or clay original. FAR too many such YT videos begin with the sculptor cutting down the stone to basic envelope shape, then skip forward to detail work done with a fine chisel, suggesting falsely that final result was achieved wholly by chisel. Often included is a voice-over by the sculptor musing poetically on the meaning of (and their struggles with) a practice now defunct and alien in this digital world... and it's not as if drilling itself is some 20thC invention, it goes back over 200 years.

Чудо. Наконец я воочию увидела, как рождаются из куска мрамора те замечательные статуи, которые стоят в музеях! И мое восхищение мастерами, создающими их, увеличилось стократно! Вот бы такие фильмы можно было посмотреть в музеях интерактивно! Как было бы хорошо и правильно!

Absolute Master. I love your work Sir. I lay stone and brick for a living but clearly you are the definition of Stone Mason.

I'm an old decorative rock miner & I would love to study with this guy, that's always been a dream of mine to do this.

I'll tell you the genius of these men. Put the same exact tools and conditions in people's hands now & they will do what millions of people cannot. They are still modern day artists. And yes, Michelangelo & Bernini were incredible.

Fascinating...I hadn't realized marble was such a soft stone. Thankyou.

What incredible artistic talent and skill! I'm surprised at just how soft the marble actually seems, though I'm sure the power tools make it look more so. Jerry of San Diego

Thanks for posting this fascinating film up. What a great job he's got.. I'm a self taught mason but never used marble. I did once carve the 3 wise monkey's into a piece of Beer stone that came from a quarry used since Roman times and is hard to find. Time seems to fly by when you find a shape in a chunk of stone and working to carve it out. It's a good feeling and good for the soul, bashing at a rock with a hammer and chisel. No limp wristed air tools for me, it's far too easy.

that poor dudes lungs.

Astonishing skills being masterfully executed. The understanding of material, visual intelligence and hand skills are a joy to watch. If life were just, these gentlemen would be very rich financially to match such skills. Beautiful.

Wonderful Maestro, shame he does not protect his ears, eyes, or lungs and live longer to enjoy his grandchildren.

Brother you have been blessed by God with amazing talent. Please protect your lungs and wear mask.

I am self teaching right now working with marble I have some works in a gallery,I have a 4 1/2 inch grinder and some hand tool,how amazing it is to see the details in this video thank you for sharing,this is great!

Forgive my tears Maestro, the beauty is overtaking

OMG...skill we will loose if it’s not passed to generations. Give this artist lot of credit.

This was mindblowing to watch ,respect to any sculptor who choose to carve a stone ,that has to be one off the hardest art discipline to master ! I was not even breathing watching it ,you become imerse in whole process

Imagine Michelangelo sculpting the Pieta without those power tools!

Dearly Beloved OMG how much I love listening to this.

Semplicemente: grazie 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️il cuore mi si riempie quando guardo lavorare artisti con passione....poi il marmo come il grande Canova ❤️

Also, it pleases me that so many people, by their comments, appreciate this fabulous form of art. Jerry

Phenomenal workmanship. I had no idea this is what it took to recreate an original statue. These gentleman are not only artists unto themselves--they are Saints having this much passion and patience. I agree with everyone else's comments--please wear a mask.

I am Vietnamese. Always keep an eye on your taste. Great, Thank you for visiting me.

Amazin, Beautiful and incredibly skilled hands... I admire your talent...

The metrical slowness of the movement "sculpts" the sculptor's idea. If I were a robot I would be humbled by my "empty precision." A work done by human beings with feeling at the tip of their fingers. Only masters within this "sanctuary", an atmosphere of waiting and searching.

What an amazing thing to see .... I would love to feel the same dimensional space as this person, it’s as if he reaches into the marble and pulls out a fantasy.

truly amazing, and the whole process is relaxing to watch!

Makes me think of masters of the old. Myron, Polykleitos and then Donatello, Michelangelo and Bernini!!! No electricity, no power tools and yet, their works carved with such beauty, precision and detail are far superior to the art of today. Think of the countless hours spent with a chisel carving such masterpieces as Discobolus, David, Apollo and Daphne! Such disciplined, repetitive work. The amazing devotion and massive talents leading to revealing beauty, thought, movement, ideas. Pieces that after hundreds of years still mean everything, are able to move us and transform us. It seems we've lost the key to our own hearts and there is no return.

molto bella è un'opera di un grande artista e genio.- Mi congratulo con l'artista e la galleria per questo video e mostro al mondo cosa si può fare con il cuore.-Saluti dalla città di Chicago, Illinois. Stati Uniti d'America (Pittore messicano O Romero)

Wonderful skills.. he’s a hero of mine now, not a drop of PPE or Risk Assessment.. BRAVO RAGAZZA !!!

Wielki szacunek dla tego Pana mistrz świata 👍

I head this piano intro in the video game kingdom hearts on its menu screen after the intro song. Not sure if it’s a piano piece that already existed before the game or not but it’s a nice piano piece. Works nice here too!

True Art 😍😍😍🇦🇺 I could watch this all day.

11:10 I cut this part from the video, made it into a gif, and now I am just randomly sending it to people with no explanation. I am having the time of my life.

Maestro 😊 thank you so much for the video. Admires must Become Makers/ Doers 😊

The culture of art is ALWAYS beauty. This is beauty.

The work you do is lovely as I have wrote to you about making me 2 cats looking forward and proud love dianne and my 11cats.

Incredible skill. We humans have the ability to be so creative & yet we seem to enjoy being destructive . 👍

I truly honestly admire anyone with the patience and skill to do this

O MEU SONHO É SER UM DIA UM ARTISTA NA ARIA DA ESCULTURA ... QUE BELAS OBRAS PRIMAS QUE VEJO A SEREM PRODUZIDAS... BRAVO 👏👏👏

A great and grand sculpture worthy of appreciation. Happy 😊 to see it . Thanks 😊

Talent, imagine the sculptor that did the original, from his mind to the stone, the sculptor on the video has his talent to duplicate using the tools like a real master. I’m impressed

Michelangelo without these power tools, must have had alot of patience and passion

I felt this video was beautiful visually and musically.

Love it!! So beautiful!! 💕💕💕Even the music is jibing. Happy new year!

Wow the work it takes...beautiful

What grace to do so much work, and hand over your work to someone else to finish it!

Its fascinating to watch.... The artist will be gone, but that sculpture will remain for centuries to come...So the sculptor will be immortalised through his work!

10:59 The statutes face is perfect for what he just did xD

Thank you, Italy, for continuing this great tradition.

This is wonderful. I am a drawer that would like to branch out into sculpting. Thank you for your talent.

I'm a simple man. I see marble carvings and hear the kingdom hearts soundtrack...I click like

Genius ! Even without the safety precautions you accomplished great projects. I wanna be you

Fantastic record - what a mesmerising process, and wonderful craftsmanship

IMAGINE how BADASS the OLD SCHOOL SCULPTERS had to be !

Magnificent works...fight between..sharpness and strength...

I feel like she added life and pride and even contentment

I am speechless. Just gorgeous...

a mon avis,la plus belle vidéo de sculpture du web.félicitations !

Thank you! Sculpture is my favorite form of art!

So nice very talented marble sculptures/ artists they are(salute you), I wish I would have lived in Italy to gain such skills like these😏😏imagine when a time a genius sculptor like Micheal A. would have been lived in our present time with a modern carving tools?would it be even more wonderful like those in video?

ahhh!!!, qué berraquera, llegar a esa etapa de la vida, así me quiero ver yo, un viejo en su taller rodeado de lienzos, pinturas, esculturas, es lo que me proyecto de mi, es lo que quiero de mi hasta los últimos días de mi vida.☺

La più alta espressione umana e' la scultura possedere questo dono e un miracolo di uno che sublima lo spirito

Maestro: now that I found you on youtube, allow me a question please. I always wondered, not so much now with diamond stones and all the pneumatic tools, but in the old days. How did they get the marble so smooth? Thanks

I could watch this all day.

Sir aapki Jitni tareef ki jae utni hi kam hai, sach mai very beautiful

Wow........what a gift!!! Thank you

Quel travail.... Magnifique, énorme !

Fantastic work. I really have no idea what kind of hard work it requires but... wear a particle respirator, god damn.

Sir Great art work,Very hard art,thank for that.

I just scrolled down here for the Kingdom Hearts comments

This artistic ability is a gift from our Creator. I can imagine the old Masters doing this kind of work without electric tools ☺️😉, it's amazing! I would like to see it from the beginning sketches of the subject until the point of carving it in the marble.

If Michelangelo had modern tools he would have made the statues sing and dance. Beautiful work

Mil gracias por tan buen vídeo.

Amazing work! A true craftsmanship! Would like to see what he could do freestyle. No Drawings!No Marquette! 🤗 I would love to try carving marble one day.

Great skill, patience and many years of experience, not to mention an artistic eye. I don't know how much they are paid but it's probably not enough.

Thank you for your creativity I wished I had some of it I hamer and Chelsea on a bird bath I didn't think i could do. what you do God has bless you thank you again.

Mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing,......the reproduction was immaculate.

woooooooooooooooooow, questa é magnifica perfezione assoluta. mi alzo e vi applaudo. clap, clap, clap. braviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibraviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Hello hello.. Thank you for this most interesting presentation. For the first time I could see so close the instrument used to take the measurements of the model sculpture. Beautiful instrument. Thanks to your video and meaningful close-ups I could even understand how in principle the replication is done. The iron rod has to be pushed further and further on the replica stone surface till the bronze lock screw reaches the gage and cannot go further. So you dig the stone of the replica till the iron rod is reaching this point. Still I did not understand how you determined the main fix point.. for everything.. but I guess it may be done at the start, prior to all the rest of the work.. probably a point on top of the models head in combination with the 2 fix points I noticed on the front down base. (?). I also liked the honesty in this film which is to show the use of modern tools such as an electric diamond blade side grinder. I mean.. that the video is not enacted to make people believe that these works of art are crafted only with hammers and chisels to make them appear more valuable to potential buyers. Also I was feeling "better" when I saw the artist getting plenty of dust in his face and on his head while cutting the stone with his grinder..and without mask, because I also like to work often in this way.. because I can't stand the mask which is making my eye glasses foggy and blurring my vision. Which is very counter productive for creativity. I can imagine now how a Master would let his apprentice do the rough work to get closer to the final shape without risking to ruin the stone and then take over gradually. In the old times this must have been the same. When a clay model stood beside the marble block.. and the Master gave the instructions to reduce the block to his several helpers. He could do another more challenging work closer to the finishing stage or have a rest.. relaxing a bit in town in the tavern.. 😁. Right now I only do rough work directly into the rocks without model.. but your video inspires me to do a duplicate later of one of my own carvings.. which could speed up the process to have several items of the same design. Thanks again.. Here is what I do. Greeting you from the former Ceylon. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMiDZL2UurKwm2g.html

for those complaining that hes using power tools to carve stuff you have to realize the art is the same... the methods to doing it have evolved with the times... this is the order of things... pretty soon we'll be using lasers to carve stones and people will be bitching he because hes using lasers and not power tools.... appreciate the art in its final form stop focusing on HOW the art was completed the end result in the same

Wow! What a wonderful art!

Wow great work I love it

Quel travail!!! Du superbe ouvrage merci :) :) :)

Doesn’t matter power tools or hammer and chisel, both ways need an artist to create that amazing sculpture.

Carving is very relaxing and enjoyable thing to do , I enjoy the journey 👍as I dare say as the Carvers in the video do too

hi . I am moussa al shami from lebanon .. I am working csulptor lik you and Iam very fan with your work .. goodluck

kingdom hearts music?