Prof. Emerita Romila Thapar and Prof. Naman Ahuja on Ancient Rome & the India
Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, the conversation will focus on the abundant exchange of goods, materials, ideas, iconographies linked to the rich trade between Ancient Rome and the Indian peninsula.
MADONNA AND CHILD
by Sandro Botticelli
ca. 1490
Florence, Museo Stibbert
Few images in the history of Western art possess the emotional and symbolic density of the Madonna and Child. In the work of Sandro Botticelli, this iconography becomes far more than a devotional subject: it emerges as the privileged space in which spiritual longing, human tenderness, poetic melancholy, and ideal beauty converge.

