Quarrying and carving marble by Dr. David Drogin and Dr. Beth Harris Michelangelo, The Awakening Slave (unfinished), c. 1530, marble, 263 cm high (Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence) Cite this page Cite this page as: Dr. David Drogin and Dr. Beth Harris, "Quarrying and carving marble," in Smarthistory, December 9, 2015, accessed April 19, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/quarrying-and-carving-marble/.