Italian Marble Encyclopedia

The marina di carrara immediately to the southwest is a beach resort on the ligurian sea with port facilities for handling marble.

Italian marble encyclopedia.

The family created the office of marble in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry. Carrara kär rä rä city 1991 pop. He was celebrated for his art s complexity physical realism psychological tension and thoughtful consideration of space light and shadow. Michelangelo first gained notice in his 20s for his sculptures of the pietà 1499 and david 1501 and cemented his fame with the ceiling frescoes of the sistine chapel 1508 12.

A 206 211 zhong chu liang no 87 dongdu rd xiamen fujian china 86 13950134188. Makrana marble is the excellent quality white marble mined in makrana a town in rajasthan india. Carrara k ə ˈ r ɑːr ə kə rar ə italian. In the 17th and 18th centuries the marble quarries were monitored by the cybo and malaspina families who ruled over massa and carrara.

Dalati marble which is found in western oromia is white in color processed in addis ababa and used for decorating floors and walls. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material. Marble granular limestone or dolomite i e rock composed of calcium magnesium carbonate that has been recrystallized under the influence of heat pressure and aqueous solutions. Commercially it includes all decorative calcium rich rocks that can be polished as well as certain serpentines verd antiques.

Giallo antico also known as numidian marble marmor numidicum in latin was a yellow marble quarried in roman times from the area of chemtou ancient simmithu. The city of massa in particular saw much of its plan. Get the high quality makrana marble from bhandari marble at best prices. My strength is in the wheel.

Carara is a city and comune in tuscany in central italy of the province of massa and carrara and notable for the white or blue grey marble quarried there. The editors of encyclopaedia britannica this article was most recently revised and updated by adam augustyn managing editor reference content. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. Petrographically marbles are massive rather than thin layered and consist of a.

Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome and it was called the luni marble.