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Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy.
A custom black-and-white-striped marble floor in the kitchen of a California home by Mary McDonald.Douglas Friedman. It simply doesn’t get any more high contrast than black-and-white stone used ...
I took a Mediterranean cruise in 2023 and stopped at Marina di Carrara, a lesser-known Italian port. I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara — home to the coveted Carrara marble.
The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble.
Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, colored glass. Developed in the United States in 1900, it was widely used around the world in the first half of the 20th century in Art Deco and ...
The monument is located in. Piazza Colonna in Rome was erected in around the year 180 CE. The monument is made of white Carrera Marble and is about 175 Roman feet tall and consists of a base and 30 spirals stacked, depicting scenes of Marcus Aurelius, fighting barbarianism, spreading Romanism, and speaking/philosophizing to his constituents.
Cash App Review 2022: Pros and Cons. dana@thepennyhoarder.com (Dana Sitar, CEPF®) March 10, 2022 at 8:00 AM. The way people bank, invest and manage money has been changing rapidly over the past ...
Marble from Fauske Municipality in Norway Blocks of Carrara marble in Italy. The following is a list of various types of marble according to location. (NB: Marble-like stone which is not true marble according to geologists is included, but is indicated by italics with geologic classification given as footnote.