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Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII(lemmy.world)

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Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it.

https://greg.org/archive/2018/02/22/brickelangelo.html

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dustyData@lemmy.world
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Would you care to read the article? They weren’t thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.

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