The red portrait received passionate, but mixed, reactions. Some internet users took the opportunity to share the claim that the monarch supposedly was related to Vlad the Impaler, also known as ...

Centuries later, the sinister reputation of Vlad the Impaler took on new life when ... III’s archenemy Sultan Mehmed II had this portrait painted in 1480 by Gentile Bellini, an Italian painter ...

Vlad the Impaler, a notoriously ruthless 13th century Romanian ruler who may have been the inspiration for the fictional Count Dracula, has been the subject of a new chemical analysis. A study of ...

We've seen their portraits countless times ... Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was the three-time ruler of Wallachian (between 1448 and his death around 1477 ) and ...

Portrait of Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula after he is said to have enjoyed impaling his enemiesCredit: Alamy Cornel Popescu, manager of Arges County Museum, said Poienari is ...

Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the real life dracula, is surrounded by folklore, mystery, and myth. Even during his time the stories about his famed impalings traveled all around Europe.

Because his preferred method of punishment for his enemies was impalement, he soon became known as Vlad the Impaler. Though Vlad obviously upset the sultan, who eventually sent a massive army ...

However, the castle never belonged to the real Dracula, who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince. At most, according to Light, "he may have stayed as a guest at ...

Also known as Vlad the Impaler, the military ruler is said to have likely killed over 80,000 people, many by impalement, as per historians. A new chemical analysis of the letters penned by the ...