Vlad Ţepeş

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English: Vlad The Impaler (1431-1476), also known as Vlad Hagyak III Dracula, was prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). The literary figure of Dracula is partly based on him.
Молдовеняскэ: Gląď Ţępöš

The Ambras Castle portrait

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Paintings based on the Ambras Castle portrait

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Die geschicht dracole waide

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Die geschicht dracole waide is a German pamphlet, first printed in 1488 and reprinted in the 1490s. Its title page has the oldest surviving portrait of Vlad Tepes.

German woodcuts (16th century)

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Popular pamphlets based on the geschicht dracole waide were reprinted in Germany until the 1560s. Some 16th-century portraits are direct derivations from the 1488 one, others are free inventions.

Cryptoportraits

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Presumed portraits of Vlad Tepes in 15th-century paintings

Modern paintings

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Depictions of Vlad III in 19th-century romantic paintings

Coin image

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