Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII
Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII
Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it.
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Good news, it's a suppository.
Edit: I just saw the article and the author's own joke is the best actually.
In another context, their form is obviously a lingam; and we all know Michelangelo loved the lingam.
Lingam is a devotionary shape associated with Shiva that looks like this, and also a dick.
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Now that's pretty inventive. Did they do this with more statues? This hardly seems like a one off idea that wasn't used elsewhere
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there are simpler options: odessa, march 2022 https://www.alamy.com/a-statue-of-duke-of-richelieu-seen-entirely-covered-with-sandbags-the-center-of-odessa-and-the-odessa-opera-and-ballet-theater-had-been-protected-with-sandbags-and-anti-tank-barriers-fearing-a-russian-attack-from-the-black-sea-the-city-residents-try-to-defend-the-city-and-its-monuments-image466442147.html
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Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?-
The statue still exists, so I guess it worked out.
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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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To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.
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reminds me of the time cuntykarenmomtwats tried removing the david from school curriculum because PeNiSbAaAaAaAaD
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Wouldn't a bomb hitting close enough just make the bricks likely to collapse onto the statue and cause damage? 🤔
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If the bomb hit close enough to directly damage the bricks, it was gonna damage the statue anyway. This is for when a bomb hit close enough to and debris flying towards the statue, so that the bricks take the damage instead.
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he's a brick 🎶🎵🎶🎵 howse
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when he says he's all bricked up
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Given that the statue and the material surrounding it are different could we then just do an MRI of the cairns and see the sculpture, that would be pretty cool.
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You know, I bet they dressed the naked statues in actual clothing, just like they painted them.
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It’s one of those towel pills. Just soak it in water.
Instant Michelangelo! Grows to full size when wet!
Michelangrow?