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The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna preserves the famous
cartoons of the set of tapestries on The Capture of Tunis by Jan
Vermeyen. In the corner of the twelfth of them (The Sack of Tunis and
The Re-embarkation of the Army at La Goleta), we can see a small scene
with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the Muslim King of Tunis
Mulay Hassan. They sat before the imperial tent and signed a treaty
of friendship, aided by a translator, and surrounded by their
respective escorts. In the sixth tapestry (The Capture of La Goleta),
another small scene depicts the Emperor and the King sharing a
bench on a boat while they seem to hold a conversation .
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Fig. 1. J.C. Vermeyen, The Capture of La Goleta (det.), Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna (1545)

1 S. Haag, K. Schmitz-Von Ledebur (eds.), Kaiser Karl V. erobert Tunis.
Dokumentation eines Kriegszuges in Kartons und Tapisserien, Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Wien, 2003, pp. 18, 104; F. Checa, Imágenes hispánicas de otros mundos:
turcos y moros en varias series de tapices en la Alta Edad Moderna, in V. Mínguez, M.I.
Rodríguez Moya (eds.), Arte en los confines del imperio: Visiones hispánicas de otros
mundos, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, 2014, pp. 41-42.

Mediterranea - ricerche storiche - Anno XVII - Agosto 2020
ISSN 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN 1828-230X (online)