10 articles in this issue
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Giuseppe Capriotti,Borja Franco
Cristelle Baskins
In the summer of 1550, Habsburg forces from Genoa, Naples, and Sicily defeated the Ottoman corsair Dragut Rais at Mahdia, the Tunisian city also known as Africa (ancient Aphrodisium). Illustrated pamphlets, letters, and maps immediately began to circulate... see more
María Elena Díez Jorge
In Granada the topic of visual images of victors and vanquished, as well as Morisco men and women, seems to have been handled with some care, especially during the first years after the conquest of the city in 1492. The images of Morisco men seem to featu... see more
Borja Franco
The aim of this article is to analyze the configuration of the image of the Spanish crown’s enemies, especially Muslims and Turks, during the early modern period. I am going to focus on the peculiarities of each area and chronology in order to know how th... see more
Ivana Capeta Rakic
After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the political debate between the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire intensified, culminating with the War of Cyprus in the second half of the 16th century. At the same time the rise of Lutheranism started to... see more
Laura Stagno
Andrea Doria (1466-1560) and later his heir, Giovanni Andrea I (1540-1606), were “generals of the sea” for the Spanish crown, and in that capacity engaged in a long-term effort to contain and defeat the Ottoman enemies. Ariosto, in his Orlando Furio... see more
Giuseppe Capriotti
This essay analyses, through three exemplary images, the way in which the image of the Turkish enemy was used to promote the beatification and sanctification of pope Pius V, progressively becoming the emblem of all the battles the Church had to fight agai... see more
Ivan Rega Castro
The article deals with an analysis of the image of Islam in visual arts produced within the Portuguese royal propaganda, with a particular reference to the wars of religion dating back to the beginning of the 18th century. In such a context, the enemy con... see more