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Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection is the first book in English to probe the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays in this volume examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the 'truths' they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art. The contributors trace the transmission of early modern images and representations across national boundaries and across centuries to show how, through processes of translation that often involved multiple stages, the figure of the Turk (and by extension that of the Muslim) underwent a multiplicity of interpretations that reflect and reveal Western needs, anxieties and agendas. The essays reveal how anachronisms and inaccuracies mingled with careful detail to produce a 'Turk', a figure which became a presence to reckon with in painting, sculpture, tapestry and printmaking.

Painting --- Islam --- Iconography --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Western Europe --- Turks in art. --- Islam in art --- Art, Modern --- Turcs dans l'art --- Islam dans l'art --- Art moderne --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Thèmes, motifs --- Turks in art --- Modern art --- Themes, motives --- Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) --- 953 --- 297 --- 297 Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- 297 Islamisme. Mahométisme --- Islamisme. Mahométisme --- 297 Islam --- 953 Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld --- Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld