Editor: Chiara Petrolini

Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb (1539)

from: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Paris 1539 (Denys Janot), Vol. 3, p. 150

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeFranceGenderManuscriptPolyxenaWomen

Persons bringing sacrifices to Hercules (1629)

from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 494.

The Warburg Institute, London

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice FireFranceGreek mythologyManuscriptox

Woodcut depicting the burning of Johann van Esch and Heinrich Voes in Brussels (c. 1523)

Gotha

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6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Johann van EsschenLutheran martyrsLutheranismMarian MartyrsMartyrdomProtestantism

Pieter van der Heyden 1530-1572

The Women Sacrificing an Ass to Priapus (1553)

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Priapus

Abraham Yaakov

Shepherd sacrificing Ram

from: Book of Meshal Ha-Kadmoni (from Germany)

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107), fol. 24

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsRam

Albertinelli, Mariotto

Cain and Abel Sacrifice (1500 - 1515)

Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abel and CainBible, Old TestamentFire

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Sacrificial Knife (1648)

from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 158

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Keywords: AntiquarianismHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamericaNative Americans

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Sacrificial Knife (1648)

from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 156

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Keywords: AmericasAztecsHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamerica

Allori, Alessandro

I diecimila martiri del monte Ararat (1574)

from: Fondazione Federico Zeri

Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Firenze

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

Keywords: AltarpieceMartyrdomTen thousand martyrs

Alonso Berruguete 1488-1561

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1526-1532)

Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

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Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBibleIsaac

Altdorfer, Erhard

The Sacrifice of Abraham [1520]

Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: AbrahamBibleHuman SacrificesIsaac

Amman, Jost 1539-1591

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1550-1591)

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Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Human SacrificeIsaacWoodcut

Anonymous

Angel announcing the Birth of Samson, from the Story of Samson (1560–80)

from: France

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AngelAnimal Sacrifice FireSamson

Anonymous / Unknown

(1492)

from: Johannn Schönsperger, Speculum humanae salvationis, Augsburg, 1492 (Incunabula), fol. 119v

The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentSamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Anonymous / Unknown

Dasaratha and his wives perform sacrifices so that they may be blessed with sons.Inscribed on the reverse: ‘Dasaratha Rajah performs Putrakamesti (or sacrifice in desire of sons) (ca 1900)

from: Add MS Or 521

British Library, London

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Keywords: IndiaWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Prior to taking up their abode in the hut, oblations have to be made to the presiding deities. Lakṣmaṇa hunts deer on the right, and returns to the hut to cook it; Rāma offers part of it as a sacrifice. The two brothers then eat, while Sītā waves a scarf over the food to keep the flies off, and she then retires to the hut to eat her own meal. The three begin their lives in exile in the peace of Citrakūṭa (ca 1653)

from: Ramayana, [ms Add. 15296(1), fol. 71]

British Library, London [from Udaipur]

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice DeerIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

15th c. depiction of Jewish ritual slaughter of animals for consumption (15th)

from: Jacob b. Asher, Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים)

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Ross. 555. fol. 127v

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Jewish SacrificeJewish StudiesRitual SlaughteringShechita

Anonymous / Unknown

A Gentoo Woman Burning herself (1768)

from: Cavendish Drake, E. A, Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, London, J. Cooke, 1768

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Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeSatiSatīWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

A jewish Sacrifice (P. Cunaeus, La république des Hébreux) (1705)

from: Title page of: P. Cunaeus, La république des Hébreux. Où il est traité au long & à fond de la Sacrificature Mosaïque, des divers Sacrifices de l' Ancienne Loi, & des Cérémonies avec lesquelles lis étoient offerts, Amsterdam, Mortier, 1705

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Keywords: AntiquarianismFireJewish PriestJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

Anonymous / Unknown

a man sacrificing a fowl to one of the best known charms among the Akan, the nkabere charm. (18th-20th)

from: Ghana (The Kyekyere Nkabere charm (lit. to tie or bind the nkabere) was a common rite carried out throughout the Asante region during the pre-colonial and early colonial era).

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AfricaAnimal Sacrifice