The Creation of Gothic Architecture: an Illustrated Thesaurus. The Ark of God. Volumes IV and V: The Evolution of Foliate Capitals in the Paris Basin: the formal capitals 1130-1170

The Ark of God is a comprehensive pictorial history of Early Gothic churches in the limestone region of northern France known as the Paris Basin. The Paris Basin contains 1,420 churches with work from these years. Most have never been published. The photographs will illustrate over half of these, which significantly contributed to the creation of the new architecture with the aim of using the evolution of foliate carving to date them, and from this to create a comprehensive history of this most creative period.