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Nude in a Hammock in White Carrara marble by Antonio Frilli. How on earth does the physics work here with all that weight in the middle!
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Metal rebar reinforced supports inside it.
No.
A. It was made 1890ish
B. Rebar rusts even if totally encased which would split the marble from within. (Marble is porous anyway so total encasement isn't super easy anyway.)
C. It isn't needed, Bernini was doing more with less before the advent of rebar.
Circa 1682:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini)#/media/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini)_(cropped).jpg
Artists were using metal bars inside marble statutes for joining and shaping for centuries. But I’m not going to argue about it as this is lemmy and opposing facts are not wanted here.
Yes ai is always correct. This is true, just for much larger statues like David though iirc it has no support either just a hole in the base to connect it to the roof it was intended to be on.
That said no there is no rebar, no metal insert of any kind just fun optical illusion.