Hellenice kai romaike glyptike - Apo tis sylloges tou Mouseiou Benaki [Greek and Roman Sculptures from the Benaki Museum Collections]

Benaki Museum & Melissa, 2002. Brand new. In greek. Hard cover, 30x25 cm, 341 pp., 307 color and 25 B/W pictures; 11 drawings. This volume depicts works representative of Hellenic and Roman sculpture from the Neolithic period up to and including Late Antiquity that have been assembled by 25 writers, university professors and distinguished researchers from institutes in Greece and abroad. The systematic and exhaustive search for the sources that influenced their creation has been conducted with a sense of responsibility that is exemplary in terms of the scholarly investigation of how the Greek cultural past is perceived. From this viewpoint, the study offers valuable information of an archaeological nature, but also extends to historical and sociological implications. All the material that illustrates this book was photographed by Stelios Skopelitis. Photographs of other sculptures have also been gathered from various museums in Greece and abroad for comparative purposes. // "Escultura griega y romana de las colecciones del Museo Benaki": En este tomo se presentan obras que son representativas de la escultura griega y romana desde el periodo neolitico hasta la Antiguedad tardia, estudiadas por 25 autores, profesores de Universidad y distinguidos estudiosos de Instituciones de Grecia y el extranjero. La busqueda sistematica y exhaustiva de las fuentes que influyeron su creacion se ha realizado con solvente y ejemplar responsabilidad para la ampliacion cientifica del conocimiento del pasado cultural de Grecia. Desde este punto de vista el estudio ofrece valiosa informacion no solo de su importancia arqueologica, sino tambien historico-social. Para la ilustracion del libro ha sido fotografiado el conjunto del material por el fotografo Stelios Skopelitis. Ademas, se han reunido de diversos museos de Grecia y el extranjero fotografias de otras esculturas como material de comparacion.