Sculptured for Eternity : Treasures of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine art from İstanbul Archaeological Museum

The Istanbul Archaeological Museum is home to some of the world's most important collections of archaeological artifacts.

The text of this splendid book, whose subject is the museum's rich collections of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine sculpture, was prepared by Dr R. R. R. Smith, a professor of archaeology at Oxford University, working in collaboration with the museum's own specialists.

All the works were photographed by Ahmet Ertug, whose images of such masterpieces as the Alexander, Sidamara, and Lycian sarcophagi are presented as stunning panoramic views.

The photographs in this book together with facsimile reproductions of the original sculptures were exhibited in the Tuilleries Gardens of the Louvre in Paris in August and September 2002, a show that was attended by about 50 thousand people in the course of two months.

The exhibition is scheduled to be repeated in the gardens of the Kensington Royal Palace in London during 2003.365 pages,187 plates,34 by 41 cms, presented in a special case.