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A
Lost Art Rediscovered The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium
Edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Julie A. Lauffenburger
September | 2001 | 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Exhibition Catalogs, Art and Art History
Paperback: $75.00 SH
ISBN-10: 0-271-02139-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02139-3 CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
Co-published
with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. During the tenth and eleventh
centuries, splendid Byzantine buildings were enriched by colorful
ceramic tiles decorated with an impressive range of figural and ornamental
patterns. Despite their widespread use, traces of this important decorative
medium have, for the most part, disappeared. Relegated to museum storerooms,
hidden in private collections, buried under layers of construction,
and eclipsed by more durable media, polychrome tiles have until now
been denied their full role in our understanding of Byzantine decoration
and aesthetics.
A Lost Art Rediscovered includes a fully illustrated catalogue
of all known tiles produced in the region of Constantinople, including
the substantial collection owned by the Walters Art Museum, as well
as those belonging to museums and private collections around the
world. Some tiles included in the catalogue are now lost; the discovery
of others is reported here for the first time. A series of scholarly
essays gives the ceramics their rightful place in the study of Byzantine
art and treats aspects of patronage, manufacture, function, ornament,
and cultural significance. This comprehensive publication heralds
the first large-scale, permanent installation of the Byzantine tiles
in the collection of the Walters Art Museum.
Contributors include Jeffrey C. Anderson, Anne Bouquillon, Anthony
Cutler, Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen, Cyril Mango, Marlia Mundell Mango,
William Tronzo, and Christine Vogt.
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.
