Editor: Chiara Petrolini
The sacrifice of Moses (1586)
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Boston, The Harvard Art Museums
The sacrifice of Isaac. The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Ism'il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri (1585)
from: Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, Istanbul, Turkey
Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, detached folio, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
"The First Adventure of the White Horse". The king performed the horse sacrifice in order to determine the extent of his rule. For one year a horse wanders and every land through which the horse passes becomes part of the king’s territory. Arjuna following the horse encountered the son-in-law of the god of fire, Agni, who creates a river of fire to block the warriors. Arjuna pleads with Agni, the god of fire that the horse be allowed to pass, saying that the horse sacrifice is in accordance with sacred Vedic injunctions, and that at the end of the year, the horse will be sacrificed to him, the god of fire himself. (1610-1617)
from: Page from the Khan Khanan's Razm Nama (Book of Wars)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Sacrifice of Polyxena [1590-1599]
from: Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum...
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 57N1
Sacrificio di Ietro
Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini
Abrahams Dankopfer (1653)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Boston, The Harvard Art Museums
Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)
Warburg Insitute, London
The sacrifice of Isaac (1550-1599)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Allegory of the Old and New Testaments and the Church triumphing over the Synagogue (1523)
from: Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti
Ferrara, Pinacoteca
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1290)
Assisi, Basilica di S. Francesco, Basilica superiore
Pope Urban IV verifies the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena (1357-1364)
Cathedral of Orvieto
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1609)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th-18th)
from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art
Private Collection, Lima, Perú