Editor: Chiara Petrolini
Lycaon serves human flesh to Jupiter (1467)
from: Historia Troyana
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Venezia, Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1650-1653)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Scenes related to Saint Augustine addressing the Romans, featuring the Mass and, in the upper right, an animal sacrifice in the Temple. Augustine's words on a scroll read: «C'est le vray sacrifice a Dieu agreable». [1480]
from: St. Augustin [Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis]: La cité de Dieu. Enlumineur Maître de Coëtivy, Traducteur: Raoul de Presles (1316-1382). Miniature at the beginning of book 10
France, Mâcon, Médiathèque et Archives municipales, Ms. 1, fol. 305
The Sacrifice of Isaac (13th)
from: Psalterium [psautier latin dit de saint Louis et de Blanche de Castille]
Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-1186 réserve, fol. 13v
Samson destroys the temple (1270-1274)
from: Psautier dit de saint Louis
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Latin 10525, fol. 62
(15th)
from: Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium, transl. by Boccace, De casibus, trad. Laurent de Premierfait
Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms Français 226, fol. 20v
Plato speaks of the sacrifice to God; men and women praying and offering sacrifices
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague
The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1601)
from: Engraved illustration from Louis Richeome, Les tableaux sacrez (Paris, Sonnius: 1601), plate 2, pag. 48
Idolatres (1685)
from: Allain Manesson Mallet, Description de l'Univers, , contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes générals et particulières de la géographie ancienne et modern. Vol.: De l'Asie.
The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail of the Trittico degli Uffizi) (1461)
Firenze, Gallerie degli Uffizi
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
Saint Simon of Trent holding the flag and a shield; standing on the body of a male figure; in a border with flowers on black ground; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511 (1511)
from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511
British Museum
The sacrifice of Manoah (from the series: Life of Samson) (1549)
London, British Museum
(1549)
from: The Story of Samson, Hand-colored engravings (Netherlands)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York
Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (1530–35)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York