Flying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agoMichelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWIIlemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up161arrow-down1imageMichelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWIIlemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it. https://greg.org/archive/2018/02/22/brickelangelo.html
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWould 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.
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.