Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Virgin of the Adoption painting
Tamara de Lempicka Self Portrait in Green Bugatti painting
century. By adding a walkway close to the monument, engineers unintentionally shifted the soil underneath the tower. This seemingly harmless act gradually caused the lean to worsen by several inches. The Italian government formed a commission to find a way to prevent any further slide."It's not often widely appreciated that the tower was literally on the point of falling over," says John Burland, a professor of soil mechanics at London's Imperial College who worked on the project. "Anything we did was extremely delicate."But throughout the repair process, the tower proved strong enough to stand on its own. Or to be more precise, Burland points out, the tower's
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