Carrara Marble Museum redevelopment project kicks off

Carrara Marble Museum redevelopment project kicks off

Carrara Marble Museum redevelopment project kicks off A memorandum of understanding was recently signed between the Chamber of Commerce of North-West Tuscany and the Municipality of Carrara for the realisation of a redevelopment project for the Carrara Marble Museum. The two parties took part in their respective capacities as owner of the building in which…

Carrara Studi Aperti 2023 - Gualtiero Corsi - Cooperativa Gioia

June 10, Carrara Studi Aperti 2023 is coming back

Carrara Studi Aperti is coming back On Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11, 2023, the event created in 2013 to give artists a voice returns to Carrara. An artistic community, that of Carrara, with more than 200 studios and more than 400 sculptors, painters, artisans, designers, photographers, ceramists, mosaicists and creative people of national…

Opera and Marble

How opera integrated our ancestors

How opera integrated our ancestors. Emigrants brought marble and opera Maria Mattei tells how expatriate Carraresi in the U.S. gained acceptance through Belcanto and culture This morning an article appeared in La Nazione in which Maria Mattei, president of the Cultural Commission of the Municipality of Carrara, a scholar of Anglo-Saxon history and the relations…

Cave di marmo Carrara

MARBLE CAVES in “Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica”

MARBLE CAVES Origin and development of marble quarries in M. Waelkens’ “Enciclopedia dell’ Arte Antica” Origin and development of ancient quarries […] Already in prehistoric times a wide use of easily quarried stone materials is attested. The first marble idols, made from pebbles or bachelors, were widespread in the Aegean world (Peloponnese, Attica, Cyclades) as…