Beyond its use in art, Carrara’s marble is often pulverised and used as calcium carbonate to make products such as paper, paint, fertiliser and toothpaste. But the extraction of marble isn’t ...

In Season 5 Episode 4 of "Fixer to Fabulous," Jenny Marrs remarks on the blue streaks in the main bathroom's cultured marble countertop, asking, "Is this toothpaste or is this the marble?" ...

and even toothpaste. But all this digging has taken a visible toll on the landscape. Mirco Felici is a local sculptor who's come to handpick a block of marble. Centuries of digging split the hill ...