Marble alone is Immortal
The theatre is the arc of the Apuan Alps, the scene Carrara, the city of marble, the backdrop is the glare of the live rock face in the quarry.
Henry Moore goes over to a block of White statuary.
"Excuse me, but what are you going to do with a hammer and chisel?"
Angelo Mangiarotti is the questioner, his voice simulating disapproval.
"They want to take a snape of me,"
Moore replies with amusement, pointing to a nearby pair of tourists fiddling with a camera.
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| By Roberto Franzoni RICHES FROM NATURE Marble embodies absolute magnificence in buildings. The material expresses beauty, elegance, strength, eternity and testifies to the human ability to tra |
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| By Marcoantonio Ragone "For me the important distinction is between a stylistic approach to the design; and an analytical approach giving the process of due consideration to time, place, and purpose... My analytical [...] |
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| Text by Pei Partnership Architects LLP Brief description of the project This project built in Beijing, China, balances time, place and purpose in a building whose spatial complexity, structural stabili |
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| This is the latest condominium building to be built in Monte Carlo. Its stunning location overlooks the stretch of water of Port Hercule, teeming with super-yachts, making it visible from the port and all the yachts. Its [...] |
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| By Decio.G.R. Carugati "From our very first projects, we decided not to overload individual configurations with an excess of sign, believing that though the products would be easier to identify immediately they [...] |
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| By Matilde Battistini There is a phrase of André Gide's that really appeals to me: "The sculptor does not attempt to translate his thoughts into marble. He thinks directly as if it was all marble, he [...] |
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| By Marco Baudinelli It is a great satisfaction for the Carrara Academy, and for me personally, to finally attain this goal we set ourselves when I was first appointed director. It has taken many years and a certain [...] |
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| By Anna Vittoria Laghi The aim of the exhibition is to restore to rightful critical consideration a sculptural tradition which ideally stems from the work of Antonio Canova, but which developed in original ways through [...] |
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| By Lucrezia De Domizio Durini In recent times, there has been a spate of information that newspapers and magazines spread in the international cultural circles almost exclusively as a function of the market. They [...] |
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| By Valerio Cometti Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi...men of infinite sensitivity, extraordinary minds that have won a place in history for themselves and for this Italy, now at times [...] |
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