Michelangelo at the Marble Quarries | The Metropolitan ...
Marble has been quarried in Carrara, located on the northernmost tip of Tuscany, for nearly 2,000 years. Until the late 19th century the process of extracting marble from the mountains had remained little changed since Michelangelo''s time. Although the film footage below of work in the quarries of Carrara shown here is contemporary, it ...