The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Finiguerra, Maso - Baldini, Baccio (school of)

The Sacrifice of Polyxena

Year: ca 1470-1475

From: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (recto of 1889,0527.58): Pyrrhus (Neoptolemos) sacrificing Polyxena on the tomb of his father Achilles

Location: British Museum, London

Keywords: AchillesPolyxenaWarWomen

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Edited by: Chiara Petrolini

The Sacrifice of Polixena (1647)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksPaintingsPolyxenaPriam of TroyWarWomen

[French]

Neoptolemus Sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's Tomb [1500]

from: Anonymous / Unknown. Livre de la destruction de Troye, et la vraye hystoire de Eneas, n. p., n. p., 16c., fol. 169r

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fr. 22554

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPolyxena

Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco