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  AllRefer.com - Carrara, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
It is the most important center of the Italian marble industry; the famous white Carrara marble is quarried in the nearby Alpi Apuane.
With Massa, the city constituted the principality, later duchy, of Massa and Carrara (15th–19th cent.).
Carrara has a fine 12th-century cathedral; the former ducal palace (16th cent.) now houses the Fine Arts Academy.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Carrara.html   (178 words)

  
 CARRARA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara is a city in the Massa Carrara province of Tuscany, Italy, famous for the white or blue-gray marble quarried there.
Carrara marble has been famous since the time of Ancient Rome; the Pantheon and Trajan's Column in Rome are constructed of it.
After the death of Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan in 1477 Carrara was fought over by Tommaso Campogregoso, lord of Sarzana, and the Malaspina family.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ca/Carrara.htm   (243 words)

  
 Carrara - Nevada Ghost Town
The economy of Carrara was based upon a large marble quarry, in the hills east of the townsite.
A newspaper, the Carrara Obelisk, was published (published May 8, 1913 - September 1916), and the post office opened shortly after (May 24, 1913 - September 15, 1924).
The Carrara school district was established in 1915.
www.ghosttowns.com /states/nv/carrara.html   (730 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Massa Carrara
In 1568, Carrara became a principality, and in 1664 a duchy.
The daughter of Alderamo, the last of the Cybòs, married Rinaldo Ercole d'Este, and by this marriage the duchy became united with that of Modena; in 1806 it was given to Elisa Bacchiochi, and in 1814 to Maria Beatrice, daughter of Rinaldo Ercole, at whose death the duchy returned to Modena.
Carrara is the birthplace of the sculptors Tacca, Baratta, Finelli, and Tenerani, and of the statesman Pellegrino Rossi.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10024b.htm   (418 words)

  
 carrara
The minerals of the Carrara marble are among the most known italian minerals.
Carrara marble is very famous for the statuary quality, used by all the most famous sculpturers in the world (Michelangelo, Canova, etc.).
The first peak of extractive activity was in the roman period, during the imperial age the demand for Carrara marble rose since it became the most requested building stone for public buildings.
www.webmineralshop.com /articoli/carrara_eng.htm   (648 words)

  
 Carrara - Italy a guide to come and visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Situated at the foot of the Apuan Alps, the province of Massa Carrara owes its world-wide fame to the white marble overhanging it.
Massa and Carrara are two outstanding cities of the territory, with plenty of monuments, squares and buildings, a prestigious evidence of man's ability in marble workmanship.
On the coast, Massa Marina and Carrara Marina, renowned sea resorts are worthy anticipation of beaches and places to visit of Versilia.
carrara.5terre.com   (148 words)

  
 Carrara Overview Part xxx
Shown at left is a very simple terrain scene using a Carrara Terrain object with a default texture, a Carrara plain set to its texture setting of Sea Water with a BUMP mapped surface set for rippling, and a volumetric cloud.
Carrara's menu for editing terrains is a little more limited than that of Bryce, but its pulldown menu for terrain object selections and a generator button that creates numerous variations on a chosen theme go beyond Bryce's scope.
In Carrara this is part of the Four Elements Shader under the category of BUMP in the Texture dialog.
www.corelmag.com /1103/overview/carover4w.html   (1371 words)

  
 Carrara (Tuscany, Italy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara city was under the rule of the Ugolini family.
Carrara was merged in 1805 into the pincipality of Lucca, but 1815 in Viena Congress was asigned (togheter with Massa) to Modena.
The Dukedom of Massa and Principality of Carrara had maritime ensigns: two of their images are preserved for example in one of the documents at the State Archive of Massa and date to 1670 and 1684.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-carar.html   (1389 words)

  
 Eovia Carrara Studio 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara 3 is a bargain and has many of the high end features typically associated with the professional 3d market.
Carrara 3 includes a non-photorealistic renderer to allow artists the creative freedom to render different looks for their images and animations.
Carrara also ships with a large number of pre-built template animations that are a great way to start an animation or animate something quickly.
www.cgfocus.com /ArticleDetails.cfm?ArticleID=244   (1727 words)

  
 Carrara - Vacanze In Versilia - The comprehensive guide for holidays in Tuscany with hotels, campsites, farmhouses, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara - Vacanze In Versilia - The comprehensive guide for holidays in Tuscany with hotels, campsites, farmhouses, various accomodations, events, monuments, museums, itineraries, trips, restaurants,useful information.
Carrara is the world’s capital of the marble trade and working and owes its name (from the ligurian stem KAR=stone) to the stone that has made it famous all over the world.The ancient centre boasts of valuable monuments as the Cathedral (11-14
Massa one, in a relationship which often carried to a fraternal conflict.Carrara was in fact an integrative part of the Malaspina marquisate and of the Cybo dukedom.
www.vacanzeinversilia.com /eng/carrara.html   (471 words)

  
 Giovanni Carrara MLB Baseball at CBS SportsLine.com
Carrara, an eight-year veteran, was 7-4 with a 3.93 earned run average and 56 strikeouts in 76 2-3 innings last season.
Carrara was removed from the Dodgers' roster in October and assigned outright to AAA Las Vegas.
Carrara, who will be 38 in March, is 29-17 with a 4.70 ERA in 288 games with five major-league clubs.
www.sportsline.com /mlb/players/playerpage/127056   (217 words)

  
 Eovia - Carrara Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara 5 delivers a robust suite of modeling, animation and rendering tools in an intuitive user interface that experienced 3D artists and novices alike will embrace.
The highly-affordable Carrara 5 lavishes speed and power that enables users to create more freely and deliver high-caliber results under even the tightest deadlines.
Carrara 3D Basics 2 is the ideal software for anyone unfamiliar with 3D.
www.eovia.com /products/carrara.asp   (183 words)

  
 Eovia Products Carrara and Amapi Designer 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara 5 provides the power, speed and quality that enable you to realize your creative potential and produce the highest-caliber results time and again.
Carrara 5 is the intuitive and affordable choice for 3D modeling, animation and rendering.
Carrara 5 Pro has the same competencies and highly intuitive interface as the Standard version but adds advanced features such as sound support, 3D and vector motion blur, blurry reflections, extended import capabilities and more.
www.venturaes.com /eovia   (1102 words)

  
 Carrara Overview Part xxx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bones in Carrara can be freely set or they can be constrained in a number of ways including as socket joints or through inverse kinetic (i.e.
Obviously, Carrara's bone's were developed to work with Carrara's 3D objects but let's jump right into the thick of things and start with a CorelDraw stickman (shown at right).
Located near the bottom of the INSERT menu you have a choice of four different types of forces that can be inserted to have an overall effect on your objects including a Directional force (that can be moved, rotated, etc.) a Damping force (drag) a torque force (twist) and a flow force.
www.corelmag.com /1103/overview/carover4v.html   (1240 words)

  
 MoMA's mob connections - MoMA's Shed Tapes - Carl Carrara
A powerfully built fellow, Carrara didn’t dress mob, but country club, so it was fitting that when he did agree to talk, he invited me to tea in the Palm Court of the Plaza hotel.
Carrara is explaining to another individual inside the shed how he got where he is.” He says he started living the life at 17, with the Bonnano family.
Carrara got out of prison, he had nobody left to turn to in his own crew,” Siegel told the court.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/trends/columns/cityside/9265   (1071 words)

  
 creativepro.com - Eovia Carrara 2.1: Model Building for the Masses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara uses the metaphor of "rooms" to divide the many 3-D functions, such as Modeling, Assembly, Surfacing, Animation and Rendering.
The strength of Carrara's modeling features is that you can fairly easily create objects such as beveled 3-D text, or objects made from collections of simple primitive shapes.
Furthermore, Carrara lacks manipulation widgets when moving drawing objects in 3-D, and transformations are sometimes based on world axes, sometimes on surface normals, so it is very difficult to know exactly what you're doing to an object.
www.creativepro.com /story/review/18465.html   (1275 words)

  
 Carrara Pro 4.1.1 - MacUpdate
In complete contrast, Carrara allows you to crete a basic model, create a texture, or add a mapping of your own artwork, light it, add background elements and export the whole thing as a tif, pict, mov, or whatever you need or can think of.
Carrara is a royal pain in the tush to use, the GUI a real nightmare and so hard on the eyes.
Carrara is based on the concept of "Rooms," various areas in which you work on different aspects of the image - assembling, modeling, animating, texture and rendering.
www.macupdate.com /info.php/id/9713   (1429 words)

  
 Carrara 4 Pro - Eovia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara 4 Pro software keeps professional designers ahead of the curve by offering superior performance capabilities and an extraordinarily abundant toolset.
Carrara 4 Pro has the same competencies and highly intuitive interface as our Standard version but adds advanced features such as sound support, 3D and vector motion blur, blurry reflections, extended import capabilities and more.
Carrara 4 Pro also comes pre-loaded with essential plug-ins, TransPoser™ and CADstyle™, as well as a fully functional version of Amapi Designer 7, our versatile modeling package.
www.3d-shop.net /Details.cfm?Productid=620   (662 words)

  
 .:: InterScultura: scolpire a Carrara ::.
In time Carrara became an attraction-centre for famous artists: Giovanni Pisano was the first and Michelangelo the best-known; but also Bandinelli went there from Florence and the famous Spanish sculptor Ordonez and a century later than these artists, also Bernini arrived and worked in Carrara.
The technique of Lizzatura was slowly dropped and replaced with the advent of the “marmifera” railway at the end of XIX century and later with the spread of lorries.
The XX century in Carrara and its environs” achieved a truly international success and it was an out-and-out cultural event, which called to mind the history of a whole century of sculpture.
www.interscultura.it /eng/marble.asp   (1050 words)

  
 Carrara Ghost Town, Nevada
Unfortunately for the investors of the American Carrara Marble Company formed in June 1912, much of the marble found at the site proved to be of insufficient quality to reap a bonanza of wealth.
During Carrara's heyday, it boasted a town of nearly 100 residents, with its own newspaper and post office.
Some cement structures about a mile north of Carrara are the remains of the abandoned Elizalde Cement Company plant that was built in the early 1930's.
www.roadtripamerica.com /places/carrara.htm   (568 words)

  
 Carrara - Destination Guide - Hotel Near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara is still the world's largest producer and exporter of marble, shipping out 1.5 million tonnes a year from the container port plumb in the middle of Marina di Carrara.
Carrara-Avenza train station is close to the Marina di Carrara seafront, and is served by regular buses which run 4km inland to drop off at Carrara's central Piazza Matteotti.
Carrara's two hotels are the spartan Da Roberto on Via Apuana (tel 0585.70.634; L60,000-90,000/?30.99-46.48), and the more salubrious Michelangelo, Corso Fratelli Rosselli 3 (tel 0585.777.161, fax 0585.74.545; L120,000-150,000/?61.98-77.47), with parking and a jolly manager.
www.hotelnear.com /3014/3065/'ampezzo-Carrara.html   (550 words)

  
 Accademia Carrara
This Madonna and Child, with the preciosity of the work and the extremely delicate finish decorations in the golden background, like the iron clamps which couple the balustrade slabs, is typical of the Siena Art taste.
In the Carrara Collection catalogue, from which this painting has been taken, this canvas has been described as the portrait of one of Fra' Galgario' s young students, who worked with him in the Galgario Conv ent and died at the young age of 22.
This portrait, in which a girl of the Redetti household is identified, is among the most popular paintings exhibited at the Accademia Carrara, obviously due to its extremely pleasant subject.
www.accademiacarrara.bergamo.it /Progetti/Riprod/riprod01_e.htm   (888 words)

  
 Eovia(TM) Introduces Carrara(TM) 4
Carrara 4 Pro delivers an enhanced breadth of capabilities and power that professionals demand.
Carrara 4 Pro software adds multi-node distributed rendering, vector and 3D motion blur, extended file import, and more.
Customers who purchase Carrara Studio 3 between August 31 and November 30, 2004 will be eligible for a free upgrade to Carrara 4 Pro.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-31-2004/0002241248&EDATE=   (434 words)

  
 Carrara
My first site of Carrara was around dawn, with the light raking across the famous Apennines mountains, there was marble everywhere, marble buildings, bench's, road curbs etc. etc.
I found the apartment up a little road called "Via Ficola" that wound its way up a hill just out of town, The apartment was built in the 16th century and possessed a lovely marble paved terrace, that afforded a spectacular view to the sea ahead and the mountains behind.
For a young sculptor, Carrara is intoxicating, set against the spectacular Apennines that form a back drop to the town, great rugged mountains with big marble teeth extracted from centuries of quarrying.
www.users.bigpond.com /SCHIP/carrara.htm   (534 words)

  
 Carrara Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carrara Studio comes with 2 CD's, one of which is for the application and the other is loaded with images, textures and Carrara Models.
Once Carrara Studio is installed and runs for the first time, it asks you if you want to register your copy, then greets you with the Quick Tour, which is nicely detailed and quickly explains most of Carrara's features.
Carrara allows you to add special effects to your scene, such as clouds, volumetric clouds, fire, particles and fog.
www.cgfocus.com /ArticleDetails.cfm?ArticleID=106   (1791 words)

  
 Computer Graphics World - Carrara 3D Basics Toolbox for 3D Artists and Hobbyists
Carrara 3D Basics provides much of the sophistication of Carrara Studio 2, but is designed for those who want to jump into the 3D scene and become proficient in creating 3D illustrations and animations.
Carrara 3D Basics is available for both the Mac (OS 8.1, OS 9.1 and OSX) and Windows platforms.
Carrara 3D Basics is an all-in-one, affordable 3D toolbox for the user unfamiliar with 3D design and animation.
cgw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=18&ARTICLE_ID=161029   (360 words)

  
 Workman at Carrara
In Carrara: A Quarry (lower right), four men chip away at a massive block on a plateau of the imposing mountain in the lower part of the painting.
We are preparing a conference on Sargent for Carrara and have need of all the books and all the relevant information so that we can acquire these and other publications of merit.
Very little is known, that I know anyway, WHY Sargent choose Carrara and the marble quarry for what would be one of the most tightly grouped series of paintings that he would ever do.
www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Workman_at_Carrara.htm   (887 words)

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