Pier Luigi Tucci is assistant professor of Roman Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He has also held posts at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and at Royal Holloway (University of London) and Exeter University in the United Kingdom. His research interests cross the boundaries between classics and archaeology and include late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.