Vlad Ţepeş
Vlad Ţepeş (1431-1476), also known as Vlad III Dracula, was prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). The literary figure of Dracula is partly based on him.
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The Ambras Castle portrait[edit]
Vlad Ţepeş also known as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula (around 1560, probably after a lost original)
Vlad Ţepeş (higher resolution)
Vlad Ţepeş
Vlad Ţepeş
Paintings based on the Ambras Castle portrait[edit]
Vlad Ţepeş (~1575 - 1595)
1600
XVIIth century
Die geschicht dracole waide[edit]
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.
1488
1491
1491
German woodcuts (16th century)[edit]
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.
1520
1520
1530
1530
1499
1500
Cryptoportraits[edit]
Presumed portraits of Vlad Tepes in 15th-century paintings
As a man from the crowd in La processione dei Magi (1459), claimed by Mario Valades
As a pagan Roman at the Christ's crucifixion (1460)
As Pilat judging Christ (1463)
As governor Aegeas de la Patras, crucifying St. Apostle Andrew (1470/80)
As Saint George, 15th century altar in Malmkrog/Malancrav/Almakerek
Modern paintings[edit]
Depictions of Vlad III in 19th-century romantic paintings
XIXth century
XIXth century
