Vlad the Impaler T-Shirt peter_paul_rubens orchards and fruit

orchards and fruit

symbolizing the bridge between the mortal and the divine realms

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist

one of the many diagrammatic attempts to capture the complexity and scope of Milton's epic poem

Vlad the Impaler T-Shirt peter_paul_rubens orchards and fruitVlad III earned his fearsome nickname for impaling more than 20,000 people and killing as many as 60,000 others during his bloody reign. He was even said to dine among his impaled enemies and dip his bread in their blood. Interestingly, Bram Stoker used elements of Vlad's real story for the title character of his 1897 novel "Count Dracula."