Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Lo Sardo, Director of the Italian National Archives and Professor of Museology at the Roman University “La Sapienza”. Author of numerous books and curator of international exhibitions, he has lectured at various colleges and universities around the world, especially on the history of Italian art and archeology. His most recent publication is a monograph on Michelangelo Buonarroti in Rome of the Borgias. He edited the catalog of the exhibition “Caravaggio: A Life from the Truth” (Rome, 2013). In India he has curated an exhibition on Ludovico de Varthema and his travels in the East and in 2012 published a facsimile reproduction of de Varthema’s itinerary.
Moderator: Ms. Yashodhara Dalmia