Everything about Carrara Marble totally explained
Carrara is a
city in the
province of Massa-Carrara (
Tuscany,
Italy), famous for the white or blue-gray
marble quarried there. It is on the
Carrione river, some 100 km west-northwest of
Florence.
Motto
Fortitudo mea in rota (My force is in the wheel)
History
The municipality of Carrara was established in
1235.
Over the centuries it was ruled by
Pisa (1235),
Lucca (
1322),
Genoa (
1329), and
Milan (
1343). After the death of
Filippo Maria Visconti of
Milan in
1477, Carrara was fought over by Tommaso Campogregoso, lord of
Sarzana, and the Malaspina family.
Carrara and Massa formed the
Duchy of Massa and Carrara from the
15th to the
19th century.
In 1929, the municipalities of Carrara, Massa and
Montignoso were merged in a single municipality, called
Apuania. In 1945 the previous situation was restored.
Carrara is the birthplace of the
International Federation of Anarchists (IFA), formed in 1968.
Main sights
Economy and culture
Carrara marble has been used since the time of
Ancient Rome; the
Pantheon and
Trajan's Column in
Rome are constructed of it. Many
sculptures of the
Renaissance, such as
Michelangelo's
David, were carved from Carrara marble. For Michelangelo at least, Carrara marble was valued above all other stone, except perhaps that of his own quarry in
Pietrasanta. The
Marble Arch in
London and the
Duomo di Siena are also made from this stone.
In addition to the
marble quarries
, the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a
museum of statuaries and antiquities. The local marble is exported around the world, and marble from elsewhere is also fashioned and sculpted commercially here.
An international stone and machinery exhibition,
CarraraMarmotec, takes place in Carrara.
Derivation of name
Luni and took it to Rome. According to Saint Girolamo, the name Carrara derives from “car” which means "wagons" and from “iara” that means "Moon", so is the “City of the Moon on the Wagons”.
Another hypothesis (Repetti) is that the term is derived from the French “careers”, which in turn is borrowed from “carrariae”, a Latin term meaning quarry. Carrara may derive from a preRoman term : “kair” (Celtic) or to one from Liguria: “kar”, that means "stone" and therefore: “car+aria” meaning “place of stones”.
Famous Carraresi
Gianluigi Buffon
Giorgio Chinaglia
Pietro Tacca
Gallery
Image:Carrara Ge.jpg|Carrara by Nikolai Ge, Taganrog Museum of Art
Further Information
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