Editor: Chiara Petrolini
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
The Mass at Bolsena (1512)
Stanza di Eliodoro, Raphael Rooms, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1511-1514)
Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Stanza di Eliodoro, Volta
Joachim's sacrifice is rejected (1500-1527)
Albertina, Vienna
The woodcut on the title page of Dye histori depicts the martyrdom of Heinrich Voes and Johann van Esschen (1523). The image shows the two Augustinian monks tied to stakes amidst flames, symbolizing their execution by fire (1523)
from: Dye histori so zwen Augustiner Ordens gemartert seyn tzu Bruxel in Probant von wegen des Evangeli
The Circumcision of Christ (1620-1626)
from: France. Series: Vita Deiparae Virginis Mariae
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16th-18th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Abraham's Sacrifice (1595)
from: Histoire du Coran ou Histoire des prophètes et des rois passés. Qisas al-anbiyyâ [Supplément Persan 1313, fol. 40]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Sacrifices of Abel, Abraham and Melchizedek
Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
Sacrifice of Isaac (1516-1518)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Scene of Animal Sacrifice (1668)
from: Der gantzen Welt Religionen oder Beschreibung aller Gottes- und Götzendienste wie auch Ketzereyen in Asia, Africa, America und Europa, Amsterdam, Joach. Nosch, 1668
Scene of idolatrous sacrifice (1668)
from: Der gantzen Welt Religionen oder Beschreibung aller Gottes- und Götzendienste wie auch Ketzereyen in Asia, Africa, America und Europa, Amsterdam, Joach. Nosch, 1668
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1612-1613)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Sacrifice of Abel
from: Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 36H3
The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1720)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin