Arturo Di Modica, Sculptor of Wall Street Bull, Dies at 80

'Charging Bull' artist Arturo Di Modica (C) attends the 2020 Professional Bull Riders Monster Energy Buck Off at the Garden Madison Square Garden in New York City, on Jan. 4, 2020. Cindy Ord/Getty Images

ROME—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 Sicily at age 80.

Arturo Di Modica died at his home in Vittoria on Friday evening, the town said in a statement on Saturday. Di Modica had been ill for some time, it said.