It's too hard," he said. "The marble from Turkey has very small crystals. So it's easier to work with, but it's too fragile. Carrara is the right compromise." Although it's easier to work with ...

“The results indicate that the marbles came mainly from the Prokonnesos and Dokimeion quarries in Turkey,” the authors wrote. A smaller number of objects were attributed to marble from ...

During the Renaissance, Carrara marble gained fame through sculptures by artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini and others. Over the past two centuries, however, the process has changed ...