The marble extraction basin of the Province ... we discovered a huge drawing of Michelangelo’s David painted on the walls of the quarry. This was a blatant instance of art-washing by the ...

His name was Michelangelo, and the marble became ... Some of this is in the statue of David? Giacomo Massari: Yes. This was ...

There are more than 3,400 statues on the Duomo, on which construction began in 1386. They are carved from the dazzling pink-white marble from Candoglia quarry near Lake Maggiore northwest of Milan ...