The Fatal Sacrifice

Gravlot, Hubert François

Year: 18^th Century

Location: Wellcome Collection, London

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-SacrificeWomen

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Authority file: http://viaf.org/viaf/47065548

Edited by: Francesco Quatrini

Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The pyre; the bride preparing to sacrifice herself (1650)

from: Nawʻi Khabushani, Muhammad Riz̤a, Sūz u Gudāz, fol. 31v

Chester Betty Library, Dublin, Ireland MS Pers 268, fol. 31b

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

Keywords: FireIranSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)

from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-SacrificeWomen

Fokke, Simon

Olimpia (18^th Century)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-SacrificeWomen

Boucher, François

Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18^th Century)

Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-Sacrifice

Beinaschi, Giovanni Battista

The Sacrifice of Mucius Scevola (17^th Century)

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-Sacrifice

Advanced Search