In connection with the Shared Stories exhibition, Prof Roberto Tottoli, Rector, University of Naples L' Orientale will lecture on Islamic Heritage of Italy and Europe on 4 April 2026 at the Humayuns Tomb Museum Auditorium.

Dr Tottoli has a degree in Oriental Languages and Literature from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (1988), PhD from L'Orientale University of Naples (1996). He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Lady Davis Fellowship) under the supervision of M.J. Kister (1993-94), and then taught in Turin (1999-2002) and at L'Orientale University of Naples since 2002, where he has been full professor of Islamic Studies since 2011.

The lecture is part of the series of expert talks organized in the Auditorium of the Humayun's Tomb Museum, Nizamuddin built by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in partnership with the Archaeological Survey of India.

Islamic Heritage in Italy & Europe | Humayun's Tomb Museum
On Display from 23rd June 2026 - 6th August 2026
Daily 10am to 8 pm
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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.

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