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Italian artist's belt -- coil it for sculpting (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

botticelli

'italian artist's' is the definition.
(Sandro Botticelli)

'belt coil it for sculpting' is the wordplay.
'for sculpting' indicates anagramming the letters.
'belt'+'coil'+'it'='beltcoilit'
'beltcoilit' anagrammed gives 'BOTTICELLI'.

(Other definitions for botticelli that I've seen before include "who painted?" , "Famous Italian" , "Italian painter, 1445-1510" , "Florentine C fifteen-sixteen artist (Primavera)" , "Italian painter of The Birth of Venus, d. 1510" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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