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Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@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 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.

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