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In 1497, an ambitious 22-year-old hiked up to the quarries above the Italian town of Carrara looking for a perfect block of marble. He searched for months until he found it. His name was Michelangelo, and the marble became his immortal, “The Pieta.” Since then, many other giants—think Bernini, Canova—have put their chisels to Carrara…