Where The Marble Has Bewitched Sculptors For Centuries (And Still Does)

None other than “Michelangelo built a road up to the mountain [near Pietrasanta], which he named Altissima (the highest). His reward was a marble of unsurpassed whiteness, ideal for sculpture. Artists – from Giambologna and Vasari to Joan Miró, Henry Moore and more recently Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn – have been flocking to Pietrasanta ever since.”