High above the earth, research and writing goes on in our world’s finest institutions. I feel lucky to be living in Florence where I can brush elbows with the excellent if heady work that is going on at the Kunsthistoriches Institut. I attend as many of their presentations as I can as well as those by the Medici Archive project. I recently came across this study, which is very interesting indeed for someone who cut their art historical teeth on 19th century American marble (and bronze) sculpture.

https://www.khi.fi.it/de/forschung/abteilung-wolf/the-aesthetics-of-marble.php