Editor: Chiara Petrolini

Unidentified Cuzco Artist

The Sacrifice of Isaac (s.d.)

from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art

Iglesia de San Sebastián, Cusco, Peru

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAmericasHuman SacrificeIsaacPeru

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(15th-16th)

from: Germany

Boston, The Harvard Art Museums

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAnimalsGermanyHuman SacrificeIsaacRam

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A Sacrifice, full-page miniature [Italy, c.1540] (1540)

from: Italy

Sotheby's

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ItalyManuscript

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Ancient ritual sacrifice depicting a boar, a bull and a ram (suovetaurilia) being brought towards the altar at right, after a Roman relief from the Julio-Claudian era (1544-1577)

from: Series: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, published in Rome

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Suovetaurilia

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes has the altar of sacrifice desecrated (1465)

from: Bible moralisée (Bruges)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, KB, 76 E 7

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

Keywords: BibleBible, 2 Maccabees

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Buddha explaining the correct sacrifices according to the Veda. The story of Kalki, the destruction of the tyrants, and the Indian representation of the Buddha and the avatara of Kalki. [1774]

from: Rites and Beliefs of the Hindus [Indian Company Paintings]

London, V&A Museum

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

Keywords: BuddhismIndiaVedic

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Ceremonial knife (tumi) with figural finial (1470–1532)

from: South America, Peru, Central highlands

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

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifeSouth America

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Cylinder vase with prisoner and sacrificial scene (Maya)

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums

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

Keywords: CeramicsHuman SacrificeMaya

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Dagger. The grip depicts the Sacrifice of Isaac. (c. 1600)

from: Italy

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Abraham and Isaac

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Daksha, one of the prajapati, the agents of creation. He is shown with a human body and a goats head. He is seated on a decorated mat in front of a sacrificial fire into which he drops offerings. (Early 19th)

from: Patna, India

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: FireGoatsHinduIndiaVedic

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Deities and Demons Performing the Yajna Sacrifice from the Devi Mahatmya (18th)

from: India, Rajput

Princeton University Art Museum

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaManuscriptVedicYajna

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Dieu ordonnant à Satan d'éprouver Job - Job sacrifiant (1470-1480)

from: Jean Mansel (1400?-1473?) : La fleur des hystoires

Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Ms 1562, fol. 118

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

Keywords: Bible, JobBible, Old TestamentFireFranceManuscript

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Elijah confounds the prophets of Baal by putting their God to a challenge. Only Elijah's sacrifice to God is consumed by fire (III Kings 18: 25-40) (1539)

from: Britain

Boston, The Harvard Art Museums

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

Keywords: BibleElijahFire

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Fictitious illustration of a medieval ritual murder accusation (1627)

from: Matthäus Rader, Bavaria Sancta Band III, 1627, p. 173

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBloodBlood LibelJewish HistoryJews

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Four men worshipping at a fire altar and idol shrine (1650-1700)

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

Keywords: FireIdolatryIranIslamManuscriptPersiaSacrifice ComparedSafavidZoroastrianismZoroastrians

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Frontespiece of Pierre Jurieu, Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes, Amsterdam, 1704 (1704)

BnF, Gallica

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

Keywords: AntiquarianismSacrifice Compared

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Gregory the Great celebrating Mass (1465-1480)

from: Book of Hours Spain, perhaps Burgos or Segovia

New York, The Morgan Library Library & Museum, MS M.854 fol. 225v

Topics:
4. Sacrifice and Eucharist (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Christ's SacrificeEucharistMassSpain

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Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]

Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

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Handprints of women who committed sati

Wall of the Junagarh Fort (Bikaner, Rajasthan, India)

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaPoliticsSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWarWomen

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Hanuman and the monkeys assault the demons, forcing Indrajita to break off the sacrifice that would make him invincible (1597-1605)

from: The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 2

National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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

Keywords: IndiaMughalRamayana