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Branching out from my study on the legal dimension of Constantinian imagery in the early modern period, I completed an article on late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of church councils (“Before the Lateran and the Vatican”) that addresses the practice of forging history and material evidence and demonstrates the significance of a fabricated past for establishing institutional continuity. Concomitantly, I have furthered development of a parallel project devoted to Giovanni Baglione’s art and writings, presenting another of its draft chapters at an international conference. In addition, I have continued my research on my next book-length project on depicting otherness in imagery related to the battle of Lepanto (1571).