Cervantes

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Basic data

  1. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
  2. baptism-icon
    October 9, 1547 in Alcalá
  3. April 22, 1616 in Madrid
  4. Schriftsteller
  5. Madrid, Rom, Neapel, Algier

Iconography

This portrait, attributed to Juan de Jáuregui,[a] is unauthenticated. No authenticated image of Cervantes exists.[1][2] (Source: Wikimedia)
An incident in the story of Don Quixote (1870), by Robert Hillingford. (Source: Wikimedia)
Santa María la Mayor, in Alcalá de Henares, where Cervantes was reputedly baptised; the square in front is named Plaza Cervantes (Source: Wikimedia)
Monument of Cervantes erected in 1929 (Madrid) (Source: Wikimedia)
Statue of Miguel de Cervantes at the harbour of Naupactus (Lepanto) (Source: Wikimedia)
Cervantes at the battle of Lepanto, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau (Source: Wikimedia)
Statue of Cervantes outside the National Library of Spain (Source: Wikimedia)
Cervantes was buried at the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid. (Source: Wikimedia)
The windmill scene from Don Quijote, by Gustave Doré (Source: Wikimedia)
An illustration from Don Quijote, by Doré (Source: Wikimedia)
The original title page of Cervantes's La Galatea (1585) (Source: Wikimedia)
The frontispiece of the Viaje (1614) (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pascal, Jacques - 1826/1880 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Johann Georg Mansfeld - 1818 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Mansfeld, Johann Ernst - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Johann Georg Mansfeld - 1818 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Martin Matthias Carl Darnmann - 1804 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Johann Georg Mansfeld - 1818 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Cervantes, Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (zugeschrieben) - 1777/1840 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Johann Georg Mansfeld - 1818 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Folkema, Jacob - 1739 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Michael de Cervantes Saavedra, John Souter - 1821.12.01 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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