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3 unusual facts about Carrara marble


Central University Library of Iași

The interior features Carrara marble and Venetian mosaic, while the exterior is decorated with Ionic columns, neo-Doric pilasters, small triangular pediments and medallions of important cultural figures.

Rosendo Salvado

His body was returned to New Norcia three years later and buried in a tomb of Carrara marble behind the high altar of the Abbey church.

St. Peter, Syburg

The simple cross in white Carrara marble, the oldest artefact in the church, can therefore be dated to the end of the 16th century.


BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London

Light cream Vartza limestone from Bulgaria was chosen for the exterior, and for the interior, Italian Carrara marble supplemented by Indian Ambaji marble.

Marton Varo

Márton Váró primarily uses Carrara marble as the medium for his sculptures, however also works with other stones, such as Texas limestone, which was the material of choice for the "Angels" at the Bass Performance Hall in Ft.

Orto botanico di Padova

A statue of Theophrastus was built beside the south door, as well as a statue of Solomon, (signed by Antonio Bonazza), local point for the east door and the four seasons fountain, which was enriched with 18th-century portraits made of Carrara marble.


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Alison Lapper

Made of Carrara marble, it shows Lapper nude and heavily pregnant.

Bărboi Church

The church's spacious Byzantine interior is composed of three naves: a central one and two lateral ones, divided by columns of Carrara marble topped by Corinthian capitals.

Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence

The Medici Pope Leo X gave Michelangelo the commission to design a façade in white Carrara marble in 1518.

Charles Townley

A bust of Townley was made in Carrara marble in 1807 by his associate and friend, sculptor Joseph Nollekens.

Charlottenburg Palace

The memorial to Queen Luise includes her reclining effigy, which is made from Carrara marble and was designed by Christian Daniel Rauch.

Gustav Kaupert

Using Carrara marble, he sculpted a monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I, being unveiled in March 1892 at the Imperial Hall of the Römer building in Frankfurt.

Johan Otto von Spreckelsen

The monument is located in the heart of the financial district of La Défense and is built of granite and of Carrara marble.

Museums in Aalborg

The external walls and most of the pavement are of Carrara marble.

St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden

It consists of a sculpture in the Arts and Crafts style which contains literary and other references and Christian symbolism, consisting of recumbent figures in Carrara marble, and an angel forming a canopy.