Quarrying and carving marble by Beth Harris and Dr. David Drogin Michelangelo, The Awakening Slave (unfinished), c. 1530, marble, 263 cm high (Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence) Cite this page Cite this page as: Beth Harris and Dr. David Drogin, "Quarrying and carving marble," in Smarthistory, February 7, 2016, accessed March 19, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/quarrying-and-carving-marble-2/.