Click on computer graphics to perch yourself at the tip of the spire of Amiens Cathedral, Professor Stephen Murray's Amiens Project at Columbia University. Now visit the various computer-generated images of the interior of Amiens. Based on your visit, describe the impact that light and space have on how one perceives the solid building material of the cathedral.

While still at the Amiens site of question 1, click on "Flash Animation." A simple drawing of an Early Christian basilica-plan church will appear. By clicking on "Romanesque" and then on "Gothic", you will see the main features of the plan change, giving you a quick thousand-year overview of Christian church architecture. Based on what you see in the animation, write a description of the changing nature of the outside wall of the church during the evolution from Early Christian through Gothic.

Your book notes that Nicola Pisano was probably influenced by ancient Roman sculpture in his creation of the Baptistery pulpit at Pisa (fig. 16-65). In the photo in your book, you will notice that there are standing figures between the tops of the columns and the large relief panels at the top of the pulpit. Here is a detail of one of these figures. How does this detail add credence to the assertion that Nicola was in contact with ancient art? (Hint: the nudity of the figure is one indication; look beyond that fact--what else about the figure suggests an ancient source?)