Skanderbeg on foot, engraved in 1601

1601

Skanderbeg on foot, engraved in 1601

A full-length engraved portrait of Gjergj Kastrioti published in 1601. Prints like this carried his image through Europe long after his death, in books that held him up as the shield of Christendom.

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