The Death of Skanderbeg by Niko Progri
1982
Niko Progri painted Skanderbeg's last hours in 1982 for the Skanderbeg Museum inside the citadel of Kruje. The canvas shows the socialist-era state still building its legitimacy on the fifteenth-century resistance.
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