On this date Michelangelo Buonarroti began working for the first time on the marble block from which he drew the famous David, destined to become the perfect ideal of male beauty in art.
On September 9, 1501, Michelangelo Buonarroti tests the quality a block of Carrara-marble - metamorphized sea sediments outcropping in the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany, Italy.
Tectonic Map of the Apuan Alps:
Video: Carrara Quarries , The pearls of white marble
Sources:
Photo:
https://www.visittuscany.com/it/idee/david-di-michelangelo-3-cose-da-sapere/
Tectonic Map of the Apuan Alps:
http://www.apuanegeopark.it/ENGLISH_VERSION/apuanegeopark_geology.html
News:
https://www.vesuvianonews.it/accadde-oggi-9-settembre-1501-michelangelo-inizia-a-lavorare-al-david/
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