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 ...

I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones had to have been taken out of the quarry one block at a ...

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

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 ...

Some artists are turning to advanced robots for help sculpting masterpieces, even as others decry robots as cheating that ...

It was in the 15th century that the head of the Fabbricotti line appeared before the Duchess who ruled over Carrara.’ Humbly, he besought permission to quarry marble. The grant she gave is valid ...

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 ...

So much so that even the famed statue of David by Michelangelo in nearby Florence is made of Carrara marble. Consisting of ...

and it's dotted with marble quarries. I got a closer look during a group tour. For my port stop in Marina di Carrara, I booked an excursion with Carrara Marble Tour to see the mountain range lined ...