From the Block, Part I: Vitruvius in Carrara Marble

Pointing technique: the Vitruvius model inside a measuring frame with rods and callipers

October 14–15, 2026 · Pietrasanta Every commission begins the same way: a block of white Carrara marble, and a face that does not exist yet. This time the face belongs to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the Roman architect of the first century BC whose De Architectura gave the West its first rules of building: firmness, commodity, […]