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His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including outside the U.N. headquarters and in Vatican City.

By Nina Siegal

Arnaldo Pomodoro, the postwar Italian artist whose monumental spheres — highly polished but jarringly fractured — populate public squares around the world, died on Sunday at his home in Milan. He was 98.

His death, coming the day before his 99th birthday, was announced by his niece Carlotta Montebello, who is director general of Mr. Pomodoro’s foundation in Milan.