About the Author

Sharon E. J. Gerstel is Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Maryland.

Julie A. Lauffenburger is Senior Objects Conservator at the Walters Art Museum.

Reviews

"This comprehensive and wide-ranging book revises our whole conception of polychrome revetment tiles by raising them above the level of artifacts of material culture to their proper context among the luxury arts of Byzantium. It promises to become a standard work on ornament and its role in architecture." - Cecil L. Striker, University of Pennsylvania