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 ...

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 ...

The book follows a single marble block on its journey from a quarry on the slopes of Mt. Penteli (then called Pentelicon) to the Parthenon construction site. See for yourself in the following ...