The catalogue of the great anthological exhibition held in Florence from June to July 2013 displays about 30 drawings and 120 sculptures by a master of 900's figurative art: a huge selection which embraces the artist's youth as well as late years. "Messina's story", says the art historian Elena Princi, "is primarily that of a precocious talent, the ability to feel a material - the different materials he has used - almost empathetically. Plaster, marble,...