In North Africa, Sultan Moulay Hassan of Tunisia, a Muslim who claimed to be a descendant of a Magi king, was in agony. He tried to resist the Ottoman invasion in 1534. The Europeans could not have dreamed of a better scenario to go to the aid of a supposed descendant of the Magi and impose their influence in the land of Islam. The Flemish painter, Vermeyen, who accompanied the delegation led by Emperor Charles V, coming to the aid of this new ally, immortalized the battles and painted the portrait of the Sultan who had slaughtered all his brothers to accede to power. The painter also painted the portrait of Ahmad, the ambitious son of the Sultan, whom he imagined as the Magus King Balthazar, King of Arabia. Sometime later, the son, who had inherited the barbarity of his father, gouged out the Sultan’s eyes and seized power.