Q1492The gleaming white marble of Michelangelo's 'David' and 'Pietà' came from the mountains around Carrara in Italy — quarries worked since Roman times and still producing marble now.
Michelangelo travelled there himself to pick blocks, reading the stone for hidden flaws before a single chisel touched it, sometimes waiting months for the right piece. The same mountains that gave Rome its temples and the Renaissance its masterpieces are still being carved into the hills, a thread of white dust running unbroken across two thousand years of sculpture.
