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Vlad Dracula Image Gallery

A selection of medieval and post-medieval pictures of Vlad the Impaler

By , About.com Guide

There are no known surviving portraits made of Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula during his lifetime, though several later pictures may be based on a contemporary depiction that is now lost to us. Here is a selection of images that draw on contemporary descriptions as well as the work of earlier artists.

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Late 15th- or early 16th-centuryVlad Tepes Oil PaintingEarly 20th-century depictionBlack and White Portrait of VladFrom the 1600sFull-Length Portrait of Vlad DraculaPainted around 1600Miniature of Vladislaus Dracula
15th centuryWoodcut from a German Pamphlet19th-century work by Theodor AmanVlad the Impaler and the Turkish Envoys

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