This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which such relationships were represented in art works from the time. Taking images from the period as its starting point, this interdisciplinary work draws together contributors from fields as varied as cultural history, art history, archaeology, and the political sciences in order to reconstruct the history of a region that was often construed in the Early Modern period as a ‘borderland’ between religions. From discussions of borders as both physical construction and mental construct in the Mediterranean to case studies exploring the Battle of Lepanto, and from analyses of art work produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries to a consideration of the influence of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin, the chapters gathered together in this insightful volume provide a new approach to our understanding of Early Modern Mediterranean history.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Images in Borderland. The Mediterranean Basin between Christendom and the Muslim World in the Early Modern Age
Ivana Čapeta Rakić and Giuseppe Capriotti
Part 1: Borderland. The Mediterranean Basin between the Two Worlds
Islamic Art in Early Modern Europe
Peter Burke
Zadvarje (Duare). The Fate of a Fortress at the Border of Two Worlds
Ivan Alduk
The Bastions of the Ottoman Capital. The Fortresses of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Seen by French Military Engineers, Diplomats and Travellers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Ferenc Tóth
The Image of Elite Corps, from Al-Andalus to Lepanto
Ana Echevarria
Part 2: Lepanto. The Image and the Reflection of the Battle in the Mediterranean Basin and Beyond
Between Liguria and Southern Piedmont. Images of Lepanto in Religious Contexts
Laura Stagno
Heroic Comparisons in Images of Christian Political and Military Leaders Engaged in the Wars against the Turks. Some Observations Starting from the Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Chiara Giulia Morandi
Johannes Samubcus’s Arcvs Aliqvot Trivmphal (Antwerp, 1572). Visual and Written Propaganda for the Victor at Lepanto
Juan Chiva and Víctor Mínguez
On the other hand, The Battle of Lepanto in Ottoman Sources
Naz Defne Kut
Part 3: Circulation. From Ancient to Modern, across Imagined and Secret Battles Reflected in Images
The Rhetorical Exponent in the Portraits of Mehmed II. Some Episodes between Words and Images, from the West Shore of the Mediterranean
Angelo Maria Monaco
Representing Africa in the Exequies for King Philip II
Cristelle Baskins and Borja Franco Llopis
Old and New Enemies in Ancient and Modern Battles. Anachronisms in Three Works by Mattia Preti in Malta
Maria Luisa Ricci
“Macometto in una nugola nera” (Muhammad in a Black Cloud). The Imagined War of Giovanni da San Giovanni (and Ferdinando II de’ Medici) at Palazzo Pitti
Francesco Sorce
‘At His Feet’. The Image of the Eastern Prisoner in Late Baroque Iberian Public Sculptures
Iván Rega Castro
Ivana Čapeta Rakić, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and the head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, Croatia.
Giuseppe Capriotti, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History at the University of Macerata (Italy), where he teaches History of Images, Artistic Geography and Iconography and Iconology.
Source
