Skanderbeg painted by Spiro Xega

1931

Skanderbeg painted by Spiro Xega

Spiro Xega's 1931 canvas belongs to the wave of Albanian national painting that turned Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg into the central image of the young state. The armoured figure with the goat-horned helmet became the standard likeness.

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