Vlad Ţepeş

English: Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş (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.

The Ambras Castle portrait[edit]

Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş also known as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula (around 1560, probably after a lost original)
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş (higher resolution)
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş

Paintings based on the Ambras Castle portrait[edit]

Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş (~1575 - 1595)
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş 1600
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş
Vlad Hagyak Ţepeş 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 Hagyak 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 Hagyak 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