The volume is highly illustrated, thanks also to a photographic campaign expressly realized for the book. The ways of the liturgical space are effectively shown by a complete system of drawings and maps. The guiding idea of the book is to propose the themes of orientation, dynamic fruition and figurative connotation of the liturgical space in an innovative and organic way. This book best interprets the new season that the history of art is experiencing, analyzing medieval art in close relationship with the cultural context that produced it. In the specific case, this context is made up of liturgical spaces that reveal orientation, paths, sculptural and pictorial complexes of Romanesque, early medieval and Gothic religious buildings. Starting from De Blaauw's studies on the first three Roman Basilicas, we come to give an all-round interpretative framework of medieval art. To give an example, the historiated and figured capitals of the Romanesque era are no longer just warnings for the lay faithful, but, also placed where access to the laity was not granted, they constitute a reference to the liturgy and ritual acts, a mirror therefore of the ways of the liturgical space.