Carrara’s quarries have supplied marble since Roman Luni and Michelangelo’s own quarrying trips; today diamond wire has replaced dynamite, but marble dust and mountain damage still divide the town that lives off the stone.
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How a Paris newspaper page launched Italian Futurism
Marinetti’s 1909 manifesto on the front page of Le Figaro had no art to back it up. Boccioni’s 1913 bronze, later cast on a euro coin, gave the movement its defining image.