Artist Arturo Di Modica, who sculpted the Charging Bull statue on Wall Street, dies aged 80

The artist who sculpted Charging Bull, the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has died in his hometown in Italy at age 80.

Arturo Di Modica died at his home in Vittoria, in Sicily, on Friday evening, the town said in a statement on Saturday.

Di Modica had been ill for some time, it said.

The sculptor lived in New York for more than 40 years.

He arrived in 1973…