History Summarized: The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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“Soil & Settlement: The Leaning Tower of Pisa” from “Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach” by Stephen Ressler
“Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800 to 1200” by Kenneth John Conant
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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You guys are the Best 😊😊😊❤❤

[@redwarrior69340]

will you please STOP making pins that are so good i can't help myself to want them ! my wallet is crying

[@foulplayer7812]

Awesome video, Blue. Have you considered doing a video on the Khmer Empire? They designed some of the most breathtaking temples and architecture you have ever seen! You'd get to gush over Angkor Wat, one of the most beautiful feats of architecture in history!

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

Please tell me there will be a cerberus one

[@theovets]

Red red let my ask you a question which is gonna reach the end first:the Journey to the West or One Piece?

[@duskdiamond7587]

I kinda love how this dorky looking building looks like its photobombing the Cathedral. It knew its place in history was to meme.

[@katbairwell]

Oh my gods it really does, I will never not see that now! Thank you for a much needed laugh

[@Punaparta]

Diatosalvi: "Do you have eight centuries of anxiety?" City of Pisa: "No." Diatosalvi: "Would you like to?"

[@Valery0p5]

The irony of that guy's name meaning "[may] God save you" 😅 It was probably aimed at the people tasked with maintaining the tower... (I know these kinds of names were usually given to orphans, but still)(also it's "Diotisalvi")

[@Vinemaple]

I kind of feel like having a tower that started to lean, they kept building it anyway, and it _never fell over,_ was kind of a flex on Pisa's part. "Yeah, nah, we coulda played it safe and given up, but d'ya see how many columns we're using? We're not gonna give up on this, besides, we don't _have_ to, because we're that good at this!"

[@CoralCopperHead]

I understood that reference.

[@JacquesZeWhipper]

I’m so glad we got a taste of “angry at architecture” Blue

[@nexdubius5290]

JACQUES THE WHIPPER?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

[@DragonLandlord]

​@@nexdubius5290he was a guest on the OSP Podcast too.

[@EPadraigM]

You know blue is serious when he found a dome he *doesn't* like...

[@kingblob6244]

not even a dome

[@gutsmasterson2488]

It’s a Don’t

[@iangreer4585]

I believe you mean Decaposphere

[@jumpingspiderjesusfreak6219]

It’s a domen’t!

[@Bluecho4]

@@jumpingspiderjesusfreak6219 We found the Domen't, everybody! Pack it in!

[@athroughzdude]

"You will not hear a peep out of me about Venice until I know enough to right a book about it" That sounds like a threat.

[@donovanchin1559]

it isn't, it's a promise.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I heard the bassline to B-52s' "Mesopotamia" in my head when he said that.

[@haileymatheson5089]

Especially since Blue has a secret project he hasn’t announced yet.

[@_jpg]

I hope Cyan can convince Blue to get some sleep, instead of restlessly researching about [lagoon-city] for the next three months before presenting us a video longer than that about Roman history 😅

[@rickdeveraux]

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[@DanGamingFan2846]

Who would've guessed a little architectural error would become one of the most famous landmarks in history? I'm glad we were able to see the hilarity of the situation and embrace it instead of trying to fix it.

[@watershipup7101]

It's pretty cool how things work out sometimes.

[@Broomer52]

It’s uniqueness of it all. Theirs a few locations in the US called The Vortex. A strange natural phenomenon where all the plant life and even the dirt twist around a single location no one has really figured out how or why which has led to some conspiracy theories (naturally) but for people who know about them it’s a good tourist location. It’s always the strangeness of something that grabs people’s attention

[@farkasmactavish]

You could say we leaned into it.

[@olivinemage4233]

That's a nice profile picture. Love me a good volcano.

[@hestiathena4917]

Truly a testament to human ingenuity, adaptability and perseverance. (Or just out-and-out stubbornness...)

[@moxperidot1012]

You're telling me a Pizza Leaned that Tower?

[@ASTROPLANET13]

"He's ahn interior decorator" "DaVinci? His room looks like shit"

[@bonedoggle]

pizza tower??

[@scott4092]

I wonder if there are pizza restaurants nearby, called Leaning Tower of Pizza. There must be.

[@AaronOfMpls]

@@scott4092 Dunno about Pisa, but there's a Leaning Tower of Pizza in Minneapolis (W 24th St and Lyndale Ave S). 😎

[@Colddirector]

Yeah and a bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.

[@billywarren007]

Tourists holding their hands up today: Quick! Take the picture! Tourists holding their hands up in the 17th century: Quick! Get the painter!

[@herohades2230]

Evidence 1: Blue has forced himself to no longer talk about Venice Evidence 2: This is by far the most off the rails Blue has been in a history video in a while (Great energy btw, love to see it) Conclusion: Venice was the one thing keeping Blue sane, there's no longer anything keeping him at bay.

[@gutsmasterson2488]

If Blue is taken by the SCP, we’ll know.

[@Xuphilo_CHSM]

Blue’s going to slowly lose it over the next month or two of videos until he releases an unreasonably long video on the history of Venice

[@annekeener4119]

The fact that the leaning tower was clearly well designed and decorated makes it even funnier and memorable. It’s one thing if a shoddy building suffers a major engineering failure. It’s another when a building that was clearly intended as a masterful piece of architecture suffers an engineering failure. The tower has lasted as long as it has because it was well built, aside from the mistake with the building foundations.

[@AaronOfMpls]

Indeed, with a better foundation, it _still_ would've been a well-regarded building. ...Just not _quite_ as famous, probably.

[@stephenflint3640]

The perfect marriage of well engineered and embellished architecture and jerry-rigged patch jobs

[@JoshSweetvale]

People would be comparing the Clinton Monument with the Berlusconi Monument.

[@Kerosiin]

I love how we could have fully straightened the tower, but decided it was funny to have it leaning

[@Vulpilux]

It would still be curved if we straightened it. No one wants to see that.

[@vinx.9099]

i mean it would still be curved. but yea, they wouldn't dare do unlean the tower of piza

[@bluesbest1]

"We are known in pop culture for one thing and one thing only. We absolutely can _not_ ruin it."

[@benikujaku4567]

It's not funny‚ it's ICONIC!

[@charlierosesmith3807]

6:30 I think the ghost of an old papal states general just possessed Blue for a second there but then dipped when he realized it meant he'd have to talk about architecture and not battle tactics

[@LieutenantAmerica]

I dunno about Blue, but as a severely lapsed Catholic, there's just something about inter-Christian rivalries that brings out the Swiss Guard in me.

[@Cara-39]

​@@LieutenantAmerica Try having a Catholic mother and Jewish father from practicing families and growing up with/celebrating both religions. When conflict is discussed, a confusing mix of indignation surfaces even though I'm not religious 😂

[@grahamkristensen9301]

Fun fact: The stairs in the tower of Pisa are so worn through from people walking up and down them over the centuries that it's hard to walk on them smoothly. Since the steps were all just big marble blocks, their solution was to take them out and flip them over... only to discover that they were also worn through on the other side, and that they had been flipped over already about five-hundred years ago.

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

Never realized how much I needed a reality tv show where architects & classisists trash talk each other. "It's unique!" "IT'S A BOOB."

[@_jpg]

We need that so much... And it should be mandatory to watch for all architects! Having studied that damn subject for half a year, only to realise that getting into that reality-detached ivory tower was neither worth my time, nor my principles 😕

[@Hallows4]

As a lesson to the FCC, Peter Griffin pointed out that the Washington Monument was basically a phallus, the dome of the Capitol looked like a boob, and the Pentagon was shaped like an anus.

[@SephonDK]

I had no clue the tower was that old. I thought because of the design that it was made during the 15th-16th century, not the 1100s. Makes me appreciate it more.

[@nirast2561]

If this was one of Red's videos, I'm certain the song on the end would've been "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers.

[@Keenath]

I just love how wonky the leaning tower is. Because of the multiple attempts to compensate for the lean, no matter what angle you look at it from or which levels you consider, there's just something a little off.

[@Keenath]

It's like a funhouse mirror of a tower. Even if you isolate it in an image so it doesn't have the context of other buildings or the horizon and straighten it up, you can still tell there's something wrong with it.

[@Talon1124]

Kinda like a half complete game of jenga, just pieces everywhere, just out of place or off kilter.

[@WidgetDaStoat]

5:27 Jocat may be gone, but he lives on in our memes.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

He’s not dead

[@Azuth65]

​@Aaa-vp6ug but he's left youtube, thus gone

[@rcnrbn]

Rest in pepperoni, sexy wholesome catboy.

[@arianewinter4266]

​@@Aaa-vp6ugHe kinda IS, Not the Person behind the Internet persona, but the Internet persona sadly is

[@Valery0p5]

Aw that's unfortunate :(

[@CodenameJD]

And all of these factors work together to make Pisa one of the best known cities in Italy. Like, it's the 55th biggest city in the country, but probably in the top 3 Italian cities many people around the world could name, alongside Rome and Venice. For what so easily could have been a forgotten medieval catastrophe, it's just so remarkable.

[@TimRrstrm]

About the whole 'feeling strongly about things you don't care about' thing, I very much feel your confusion. I don't really care about a lot of things but then all of a sudden someone says something about hedges, and I'm like 'oh no, you are a horrible human being for using exactly that plant' and five minutes later I once again do not give a rat's arse.

[@gamerofwar99]

"Lagoon Town" the opportunity to have called it Goo Lagoon must have been tantalizing.

[@macaronsncheese9835]

For whatever reason I had no idea the tower was a belltower, and now im just thinking about how presumably, for centuries someone's job was to walk up that thing to ring the bells several times a day, and I hope those people were paid /well/.

[@Lightice1]

The old belltowers typically had ropes that went most of the way down so you didn't have to climb all the way up to ring them. Still had to go up sometimes to keep the place clean and replace the ropes every now and then, but not on a daily or weekly basis.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

@@Lightice1 Also, given the importance, at the time, of paying service at the church's ceremonials, I believe they were mostly volunteers or young priests and monks. Not impossible that someone would gave donations to the church to be allowed to ring the bells, to gather favour with the big G, or, more likelly, to show off how pious and devoute he was...

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Pretty much every cathedral in northern Italy has that pattern - a cruciform church with a baptistry opposite its main (western) doors and a bell tower slightly to one side. I don't know why no-one connected the three buildings into one, but that's the typical pattern. Incidentally, the doors of the baptistry in Florence inspired Peter Jackson in the design of the gates of Minas Tirith in the Lord of the Rings movies.

[@robsonrobson9905]

You ring the bells from the base of the tower via IMMENSE ropes, usually padded to reduce rope burn. If you rang church bells from close to them you would go deaf, they are SO loud. They're huge pieces of metal tuned to a single note and designed to be heard across miles to call everyone in town to services. Bell ringing was a really important job, usually done by church members who had been trained. Most bell towers contain several bells so you have to work in a team (one person per bell) and have great rhythm to not make it sound like an ear-splitting mess of noise.

[@macaronsncheese9835]

@@robsonrobson9905 true, and I don't imagine they were going near the bells often except as someone else said for needed maintenance, but I figure the fact that the whole thing is tilted probably made bellringing a bit more complicated than it would otherwise be because either the rope is also at a weird angle and you have to account for that, or it's shorter than normal to minimize the weird angle-ness (and either way you still at least have to step inside the Structurally Messy Building to pull the rope).

[@Jmorris3265]

6:30 believe me, it is completely understandable. The Investiture Controversy has been known to over take conversations merely by referencing it in passing and there is not a single person in a social circle that doesn’t have strong opinions about it.

[@NathanSimonGottemer]

Tbh, I am Jewish, and we are (in)famously opinionated people. I really don’t have an opinion, because at the end of the day it’s just church politics the same as any other politics. I guess I’m aggressively neutral then? Idk.

[@Amanda-zn7ox]

Usually, I'm more into Red's mythology and storytelling aspect of the channel, but every so often, I find enjoyment in Blue's historical dives. I think I have a preference for the architecture ones. Especially with his obsession with domes.

[@iakkire9854]

6:24 Finding out that Blue is a DISGUSTING Guelph makes me weep! It's sickening! Literally shaking and crying rn

[@FranciT98]

The Guelphs gave us Dante. What, pray tell, have the Ghibellins accomplished? Smh...

[@bobs_toys]

​@@FranciT98they gave us Cante. Dante only told us the consequences of doing what we shouldn't do. Cante told us the consequences of trying the impossible.

[@rexblade504]

🇻🇦🇻🇦

[@jinxcat90]

Nice foreshadowing on the book, Blue

[@deeps6979]

Blue hatin' on Pisa because of its domelessness. He needed a good redemption arc.

[@mirjanbouma]

I don't know if that "arc" bit was intentional but eyyyyy 👍🏼😎👍🏼

[@andreafelizola5369]

Mastro Blue, from a Venetian (specifically Chioggia, southernmost island of the lagoon): we forgive you, don't worry pookie bear, you got everything else right and i personally loved how someone finally understood what italian languages are like rather than just dismissing them as "dialects". Really man, you've earned a spritz next time you come over, you're a certified venessiàn' now

[@galaxa13]

This video was amazing. Not only did I learn *why* this famous tower leans (I knew it was more than "bad soil", but that's all I had ever heard before), but it also contained visuals from so many different angles. I finally got to appreciate the artistry of the building itself and also compare it to its neighbor buildings.

[@dongiovanni4331]

Practical Engineering did a great video on the Engineering and history of it's construction and preservation.

[@86fifty]

That's probably where he got the info for the last chunk, I remember that exact picture of the giant drill. Or he found the same source used in PE, that's possible too.

[@dongiovanni4331]

The Italians doubtlessly have an engineering report (project proposals, analysis, ect) I don't remember that particular image from PE, I thought it was a profile shot of the drilling rigs

[@Mechmonkey85]

Questionable shape aside, the acoustics in the basilica are amazing. Notes from a single voice can echo and reverberate with almost perfect clarity for half a second after the singer stops.

[@Roland3ld]

I like how the Leaning Tower of Pisa looks like it is photobombing when it is the backdrop of a picture because of its lean.

[@abthedragon4921]

0:46 I to this day am still laughing my a$$ off at the way Blue said "Oh no" in that video XD I don't know if it was intentional but regardless it's funny as hell lmao

[@Paytonzane]

“You will not hear a peep out of me about Venice until I know enough to write a book about it.” **screams in podcast listening**

[@Moonsong227]

I see u fellow homestuck lol

[@universiTy_YT_]

Fun fact: In my home town of Wernigerode in Germany, there is a building literally called the "Museum Skewed House". It was built in 1680 and is tilted by 7°, almost double that of the Tower of Pisa. As the name implies, it is currently used as a museum featuring german artists like Paul Renner and it only costs 2€ to enter

[@alexandersmall7380]

Pisan guy: So Nicola And Giovanni, T or A? Nicola And Giovanni: (Designs baptistry "dome")

[@Azuth65]

Love the JoCrap "Smite!" in here, I miss that guy :(

[@RamblinPhoenix]

Hey! The acoustics of the Pisan Baptestry is next level though!

[@mcv2178]

Love the random surge of emotion about a fight you swear you do not care about. Enthusiasm never needs a reason

[@victortrying]

This video settles it. As an architect, I hope Blue makes an architectural review channel!

[@mirjanbouma]

As not an architect, I'd watch that too!

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

Diatosalvi: Oh monkey's paw, I wish to design a tower that shall stand for centuries and be known all throughout the world! Monkey's Paw:

[@benthomason3307]

"What do you mean, the tower's not tilting!" -The dutchman looking at the tower from a Dutch angle.

[@Nasser851000]

Dont let that tower fall!

[@royalbandit8106]

Love can literally go fuck itself, OSP videos are all I need.

[@magitek09]

"Imperfection is beautiful. At least to me." Entrapta "She-ra and the princesses of power"

[@davidhowell8407]

Oooh, so that's what a bad dome looks like. Blue usually shows examples of good domes, now I'm more prepared should I encounter a dome in the wild.

[@nebulan]

"Locked in the tech tree" Gotta work on those unlocks.

[@ryuku2100]

So the tower, just like me, got many many little mistakes throughout its life, but endured and survived and in the future got recignized as beautiful and wonderful? I feel nicer

[@francescomaccioni3460]

I was hoping you'd mention the Garisenda (leaning tower in Bologna) which has recently attracted concerns because it's leaning a bit too much. But it's just one of the iconic medieval towers of Bologna, not eaven close to the beautifull campanile of Pisa. Love your videos (and your italian is actually quite good)

[@Didymus20X6]

PISA - the home of my favorite Dwarven Metal band, Wind Rose. Already have my ticket to see them in ATL in April.

[@aristoth]

"This isnt a dome, it's just...don't!" Is going into the OSP quote bank for all time

[@taylor_green_9]

This video is particularly chaotic, even by OSP standards. I love it!

[@erichellner956]

So much passion in this video. Really went full tilt

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

You know what the worst part of the leaning tower is? THEY DONT EVEN SELL ANY PIZZA!!!

[@dnm3732]

This whole video I was thinking about that one episode of Phineas and Ferb where Dr. Doofenshmirtz was trying to get revenge on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

@@dnm3732 I thought my reference would get more likes

[@edwardcardona717]

The most interesting part of this to me is how many times they tried and utterly failed to correct the lean, and what we have now is a weird byproduct of a bunch of different people tinkering and not causing catastrophic failure somehow. Then by the time we had the technology to actually do things correctly, we all just preferred it to be leaning.

[@dliessmgg]

You know, I slightly love the baptistry for all it's horribleness. It's the Waluigi of domes.

[@turtlelongingforchaos9055]

I first discovered this channel 4 years ago. Me and my friends were in a class based on greek heroes and monsters and had to make a short film about a myth, and we chose eros and psyche and used your video as a reference. Seeing the two of them get pins almost just in time for the anniversary of that is wonderful and im so glad ive had this channel in my life ever since

[@Darksnowman13]

Also, I really enjoy hyper niche deep dives like these. Always great, Blue. Fantastic

[@pippastrelle]

You've got a great diction and way of expressing/explaining things

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

I ordered the pins and CANT WAIT!!!

[@ryanbagley3293]

Love some architecture history, great vid!

[@mitchmcnair4222]

I am glad to learn of a new and fascinating piece of architecture. I never thought about it and without this video I never would have witnessed the beauty of that bapistry.

[@Blackjack1317]

I know you're all about Italy and all but if you're interested in another quite unique building, you should definetly check out the Cathedral of Limburg in Germany. From what I understand it was in developement-hell for ages and while it was under construction as well as after completion, the people in charge decided they wanted to change the style of architecture. So they ended up with a very unique looking cathedral where you can't really tell if it's romanesque or gothic. So I highly recomend just looking at some fotos of it, it's gorgeous, in it's own way.

[@t.o.6953]

Also there's a half sized scale model of it in the Chicago Suburb of Niles! I learned to swim at the YMCA next door!

[@dropandy1453]

love this channel, and it’s so cool that you guys are making italy videos while im studying abroad here. i just went to Pisa 2 weeks ago!!! thanks for the history lesson! :)

[@TaranAlvein]

I love the tower kind of leaning around the cathedral like "Hey, can I get in this shot?"

[@xeno66naito]

Hope you do more videos about towers! This one was fun!!

[@tourmaline6538]

I think this is my favorite of Blue's architecture videos so far

[@cxfxcdude]

Lovely work as always Blue hope you have lots more to gush over soon :D

[@tibakhalid5328]

Blue talking about architecture is smthng i never knew i needed this bad

[@Iknowyou1]

You and red are amazing, have been doing a project based on Power and your content has helped me so much, you're also very entertaining and have inspired me to do more research on specific topics for my project, thank youuu!!

[@darth_olomew]

Happy belated birthday blue, ok time to watch your 3 hour masterpiece on roman history for the millionth time

[@TheDungeonofBadDecisions]

Blue's dome obsession served me well while watching 6 Underground this weekend. I knew all the iconic domes!

[@stormangel]

Blue's aggressive little tangent about the filthy Guelphs and Beloved Ghibellians further confirms my theory that he's the direct reincarnation of an early renaissance italian

[@kbingo5135]

4:35 I can't unsee that now. Thanks.

[@althesilly]

The dome of the baptistery provided some of the most sublime acoustics. With the doors closed a voice singing even just a scale sound majestic and divine. So yes there is something good to say about the Baptistery.

[@marisokami5259]

thanks i really needed some wobble tower in my life this evening, much cheered up, very making evening positive again, not that i was that upset or anything just, sometimes you need a little wobble tower in your life

[@DoomMomDot]

I was not aware of the history of the tower. Thank you Blue, for making me a bit smarter.

[@pyrouscomments]

4:35 THANK YOU

[@QueenDany69]

*_love the subject , love the channel , love the merch_*

[@AIIIKORIIIVER]

this is amazing!!!!

[@atheistsgod]

Loving how adorable the tower looks, peaking out behind the church like, "Hallo!" XD

[@AlixL96]

honestly i love that baptistry so much. stumpy little lump of a building.

[@timogul]

I'd never seen it before with the church in the foreground, and I LOVE how it just looks like the tower is trying to squeeze its way into the picture.

[@nebulan]

I love Blue's architecture deep dives

[@cezardan01]

In order to make up for your linguistic shortcomings and make it up to the lagoon town we ask...nay we DEMAND a Venice Re-summarized to go into excessive detail about our favorite city on stilts! Who's with me!?

[@robertfisher8359]

I think this is the first time I've heard Blue complain about domes! :O Still a great video. Very enjoyable!

[@straybardart]

Great video blue!

[@meowmeowkittensupreme4864]

Back as a teen I was on a guided tour through parts of Italy and the stop at Pisa was hilarious. A huge lawn filled with hundreds of tourists all doing that "holding the tower up" pose. Utterly ridiculous. I found those pictures recently while cleaning out a closet, it was a hoot.

[@thomasrinschler6783]

I visited Pisa a couple of years ago, and the whole complex is very nice, with the Leaning Tower giving it some unique personality. The one thing about it is that the cathedral square is huge and wide-open, so even when there's a lot of people visiting, it doesn't feel terribly crowded - unlike Florence down the road where it was literally wall-to-wall people everywhere in the city center (and this was in October, when the crowds are supposed to be thinner; I'd hate to have been there in the summer heat with even larger crowds!) due to there being far less room around the important buildings.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

So, it started leaning almost from the beginning? It's awesome how well preserved it is after 850+ years! It's wild to think it was around during the Black Death and all the wars it survived.

[@alyssabartholomew6131]

I couldn't keep from snickering every time you showed a shot of the tower. Especially the one where it looks like its peeking out from behind the church.

[@margaretschaufele6502]

I love this. So much.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodsocialist]

many of piza's big payouts came not from trade but from raid as they were enthusiastic participants in the first crusade that is rhyme so satisfying to me

[@Lionstar16]

Admitting you made a mistake Blue is a sign of self-awareness and I'm proud you did - too many people have a complete LACK of self-awareness

[@zenebean]

I really appreciate someone mentioning how awesome the tower looks outside of the lean. Going to make a romanesque wizard tower

[@TVandManga]

Great video!

[@fidget2030]

You have given me a major appreciation for a monument I until now always considered primarily a meme and source of terrible tourist photos.

[@mjschul]

I had no idea it was so old! Based on the design, I just assumed it was made around the 1500s with all that other pretty marble stuff. Crazy. Also, Blue being a dome snob is such a classic bit. Chef's kiss, great video.