Text size Sculptor Dionisio Cimarelli at Charging Bull on Sunday. The flowers were left in honor of its creator, Arturo Di Modica Photograph by Phil Roosevelt As a slant of winter sunlight hits the muscular, bronze back of Charging Bull, Dionisio Cimarelli sweeps his hands over the surface and inspects it closely. “The way he did these shapes was very original—strong, powerful, but also soft and smooth,” Cimarelli says.