In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 tons. They supply the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day for sculpture and other ...

Capturing the spatial geometry of her Cubist-inspired studio work led architect-turned-photographer Kirsta Jahnke to ...

Common phrases such as “Carrara the capital of marble”, “Carrara is marble”, “the heroic craft of the quarry”, “Michelangelo’s quarries” are based mainly on two ideas ...

Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a ...

Storm Herminia, raging over western Europe, threw a cargo ship off course in Italy late on Tuesday and sent it crashing into ...

Monte Bettogli, Carrara: in the marble quarries men and machines dig the mountain. The Chief manages, coordinates and guides quarrymen and heavyduty machines using a language consisting solely of ...