Sculptured for Eternity

Dünyanın en önemli arkeoloji koleksiyonlarından birini barındıran İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri Helenistik, Roma ve Bizans dönemi heykel koleksiyonlarını konu alan bu görkemli kitabın metinleri Oxford Üniversitesi arkeoloji profesörlerinden R.R.R. Smith ve müze uzmanlarının katkısıyla hazırlandı. Tüm fotoğraflarını Ahmet Ertuğ’un çektiği kitapta İskender lahdi, Sidamara lahdi ve Lycian lahdi gibi eserlerin olağanüstü panoramik görüntüleri yer alıyor. Fotoğraflar ve heykellerin faksimilleri 2002 yılı Ağustos-Eylül aylarında Paris’te Louvre Müzesi Tuileries Bahçeleri’nde sergilendi ve yaklaşık 50.000 kişi tarafından izlendi.

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, distinguished professor of archaeology at Oxford University, working in collaboration with the museum's own specialists. All the works were photographed by Ahmet Ertuğ, whose images of such masterpieces as the Alexander, Sidamara, and Lycian sarcophagi are presented in 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 of 2002, a show that was attended by approximately fifty thousand people in the course of two months. The exhibition was repeated in the gardens of the Kensington Royal Palace in London during 2003.