The Amiens Cathedral Companion

Notre-Dame d'Amiens holds more enclosed space than any other cathedral in France, raised with unusual speed and coherence across a single working generation in the 13th century. As the founding volume and master template of the Cathedral Companion series, this guide teaches readers to read Gothic architecture from the ground up: its geometry, its theology of light, its music, and a west facade once designed as a picture-book in stone for a population that could not read. Includes the series' signature "Seeing More" chapter, revealing a rediscovery about the cathedral's original appearance that most visitors never learn.