but the new king cobra philippo goosed often sought out the bishop for council of what influence did selling have no one will now but it was at this moment that the king decided to make paris his capital. he equipped the city with a surrounding wall measuring 5 kilometers flight by 77 towers. and started construction on the château the louvre the formidable fortress the west of the ramparts. amid this surge of activity by builders redoubled their efforts. the most prodigious phase takes place beneath my framework the laying of my vaults. richard had wood centering is installed atop the pillars on which the masons lay the stone blocks one by one. the keystone is the centerpiece in short and a cohesion of the whole. then comes the blocks that enclose the vault. but the procedure is always delicate always uncertain. especially for the largest one. the transept crossing. 80 inches old each year old stone so they would fit perfectly against one another. all that's left is for poles and mortar to set like glue. as though their talent and devotion are not enough they also add their anxious

revival of the ancient world and the arts science and literature and in engineering here for example philippo brunelleschi used roman engineering to create this vast dome over the dew moment the cathedral of florence while burlesque he was taking measurements of ancient temples and rome he had discovered that when you draw a street or a building all the horizontal lines seem to converge to a common center what today we call the vanishing point. rule lasky had discovered the laws of linear perspective it revolutionized the renaissance art suddenly painters could create an illusion of 3 dimensional space is if the image they painted was a window on another world. you know for us it's almost impossible to imagine the impact of this innovation why because today we are surrounded by simulated images a form of billboards television cinema they have conditioned our brain to interpret flat images as 3 dimensional reality but in the middle ages men and women never had that experience before and so there must have been utterly amazed. by a painting like this one. the crucifixion by massager the 1st fre