Taylor Russi happened to hear of this illusion in his history class (of all places) and thought he’d send it along. Taylor: “If you look at this first picture of the Medici Chapel, it doesn’t appear to be very large, only five, maybe six stories. Yet, from another view, it towers over Florence. Turns out that it was designed by Michelangelo, who wanted it to be low to the ground, like the buildings of ancient Rome. But, only having the room to build upwards, he made the Medici Chapel look much shorter than it really is, instead.” Even better example of this phenomenon is Fountain’s Abbey Church.
