The Battle of Lepanto
“The Gulf of Patras, October 7, 1571. The Holy League fleet rams the Ottoman line in a sea of overlapping galleys. Foreground shows Don John of Austria's flagship Real grappling Ali Pasha's Sultana; midground reveals harquebusiers firing across boarded decks and oars splintering; cannon smoke spreads across the wine-dark Mediterranean under a burning blue sky.”
