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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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[-] OkGo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

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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