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Air Jets to Protect Michelangelo's David
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| 1/7/05
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 01/08/2005 1:47:41 PM PST by wagglebee
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I don't understand why they don't put it in some form of climate-controlled case.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:47:41 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:47:59 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: wagglebee
Won't that chilly air make him shrink?
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:50:06 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(OK, Congress is back in session -- Where's my tax cuts for the rich? )
To: wagglebee
Won't that chilly air make him shrink?
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:50:44 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(OK, Congress is back in session -- Where's my tax cuts for the rich? )
To: wagglebee
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:51:57 PM PST
by
Beckwith
(John, you said I was going to be the First Lady. As of now, you're on the couch.)
To: southernnorthcarolina
Damn, with all the brilliant comments I've made on Free republic over the years, that's the one I had to double-post. Figures.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:52:40 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(OK, Congress is back in session -- Where's my tax cuts for the rich? )
To: wagglebee
Why not just place it in a display case filled with inert gas?
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:53:29 PM PST
by
fso301
To: wagglebee
"I don't understand why they don't put it in some form of climate-controlled case."
With "Pieta" in St. Peter they did just that - they put a heavy bulletproof glass box around the statue, but it actively interferes with the viewing.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:54:03 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: wagglebee
"We discovered that the David needs dusting often, every two months during the summer. If I waited two months before dusting, I'd need to start with a leaf-blower.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:56:03 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
To: GSlob
However, when these masterpieces decay beyond recognition, there will be nothing to view.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:57:33 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: southernnorthcarolina
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Won't that chilly air make him shrink?"
Yes, but alternating cycles of warm air will make him grow too:)
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:58:39 PM PST
by
BobS
To: Beckwith
I was in the Academia last week with my family to see the statue. It cost us about $40 American for a family of five. Ouch!
It's a small museum, with a couple other notable pieces, most noteworthy being Michelangelo's unfinished prisoners or slave sculptures. Otherwise, not much to see besides the David.
Intermingled with the Renaissance art were a number of loathsome pieces of contemporary art. Most obnoxious was a version of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling containing the prominent naked figure of a Mr. Bean type man who had a tremendous "woodie." Kids were disgusted, but couldn't help staring at it. Kinda ruined the visit for me.
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posted on
01/08/2005 1:59:54 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: wagglebee
Michelangelo's David could soon be enveloped in invisible jets of air Nobody in development liked the original "visible jets of air" idea.
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:03:25 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(QuarkXPress has caused an error in QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress will now close.)
To: southernnorthcarolina
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:05:17 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: wagglebee
Why don't they just ban the French from the museum? That would cut the amount of grime down substantially.
To: wagglebee
It's not like he could fan himself
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:09:45 PM PST
by
digger48
To: wagglebee
I bet you money it's only a copy on display to the public.
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:10:45 PM PST
by
The Wizard
(DemonRATS: enemies of America)
To: wagglebee
True, but then again, Michelangelo himself once said that if a statue is made really well, it could even be thrown from a precipice without suffering too much damage. Even after discounting his words for artistic exaggeration, one has to admit that he knew about the sculpture way more than the rest of them put together.
When I was there a few years ago, they had complex laser systems mapping all his statues in three dimensions with great precision for archival preservation purposes. Us dirty tourists had to crawl around cumbersome laser consoles. They did not add to the pleasures of viewing.
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:12:18 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: billorites
Intermingled with the Renaissance art were a number of loathsome pieces of contemporary art.
Disgusting! Hopefully, the powers that be will come to their senses someday and remove that trash.
To: southernnorthcarolina
In my opinion, he is already pretty badly shrunken. Michelangelo was not kind to him.
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posted on
01/08/2005 2:19:57 PM PST
by
Capriole
(the Luddite hypocritically clicking away on her computer)
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