Summary 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction. Images in the Borderlands: The Mediterranean between Christian and Muslim Worlds in the Early Modern Period Ivana ?apeta Raki? and Giuseppe Capriotti Part 1: Borderland. The Mediterranean Basin between the Two Worlds Rival Legacies: 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 Bosporus Seen by French Military Engineers, Diplomats, and Travellers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ferenc T th 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 Sambucus's Arcvs aliqvot trivmphal (Antwerp, 1572): Visual and Written Propaganda for the Victor at Lepanto Juan Chiva and V ctor M nguez 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 Index 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 Imaginary 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 Iv n Rega Castro Index