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| Vlad Dracula Pictures |
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| Vlad Tepes "Dracula" engravings from 1485 and 1493 |
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| Vlad Tepes reputation for cruelty spread everywhere in the Germanic region via printed pamphlets. In 1462 a German manuscript appeared publishing his monstrous deeds, and this was followed by many more in Russia and Germany. No paintings of Vlad have been found in Wallachian churches. A copy of the 15th century original portrait now hangs in Ambras Castle in the Tyrol, and a miniature in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. |