Vlad Ţepeş

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

Paintings based on the Ambras Castle portrait

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  Vlad Ţepeş (~1575 - 1595)
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  1600
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  XVIIth century

Die geschicht dracole waide

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.

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  1488
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  1491
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  1491

German woodcuts (16th century)

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.

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  ca. 1500
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  1520
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  1520
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  1530
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  1530
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  1499
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  1500

Cryptoportraits

Presumed portraits of Vlad Tepes in 15th-century paintings

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  As a man from the crowd in La processione dei Magi (1459), claimed by Mario Valades
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  As a pagan Roman at the Christ's crucifixion (1460)
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  As Pilat judging Christ (1463)
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  As governor Aegeas de la Patras, crucifying St. Apostle Andrew (1470/80)
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  As Saint George, 15th century altar in Malmkrog/Malancrav/Almakerek

Modern paintings

Depictions of Vlad III in 19th-century romantic paintings

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  XIXth century
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  XIXth century

Coin image

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  Denarius of Vlad III the Impaler (1456-1462).