Renaissance art shifted monster figures from Saracen to Turkish as Ottoman power grew

Evidence

The overwhelming majority of these characters are Turkish, signaling a shift from Saracen/Arab and African characters to Turkish ones—evidence of European anxieties surrounding Ottoman power and a continued discomfort with Muslim bodies. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the monster figure tracks real political power shifts — image adapting to a new concrete threat while keeping the same underlying anxiety.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 31