Editor: Chiara Petrolini

Unknown

(1627)

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

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

Keywords: Blood LibelJewish Studies

Unknown

from: An illustration from a manuscript of Persian poetry, possibly Divan of Zahir al-Din Faryabi

Sothebys

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 IsaacIsaacIslamTurkey

Unknown

(1651)

from: Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie (London, 1651)

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

Keywords: MartyrdomMartyrologyProtestantism

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (Armenian Gospel Book) (1386)

from: Lake Van, Turkey

Getty Museum, Armenian Ms. Ludwig II 6 (83.MB.70), fol. 5v

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 IsaacAnimal Sacrifice ArmeniaBibleHuman SacrificeIsaacTurkey

Unknown (from Urach)

Sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1463-1463)

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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

Keywords: AbelAbel and CainAnimal Sacrifice CainFireManuscript

Unknown Edo Artists

Sacrifice of leopards was the prerogative of the king. Captured leopards were sacrified at the annual Igue ceremony. (16th-17th)

from: Benin City, Nigeria [Benin Brass Plaques]

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

Keywords: AfricaAnimal Sacrifice BrassKingshipKnifeSub-Saharan Africa

Unknown Indian Artist

A goat about to be beheaded as a Hindu ritual in honour of the goddess Kālī (1800-1899)

Wellcome Collection, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice GoatHinduIndia

Unknown Indian Artist

Four priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice to Agni [1800-1900]

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown Indian Artist

Lord Ganesh and Skanda (?) sit across a sacrificial fire, with a long flame coming out of a pink pot watched by seventeen other deities. [1800-1899]

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown Indian Artist

Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedicWomen

Unknown Indian Artist

Thirteen different gods perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni (1800-1899)

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown Indian Artist

Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1899)

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Unknown/Anonymous

The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th)

from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art

Iglesia de San Martín, Potosí, Bolivia

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 IsaacAmericasIsaacSouth America

Valades, Diego

Native Americans kill Catholic martyrs with bows and arrows, stones, knives, and spears. [1579]

from: Valades, Diego, Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi, et orandi usum accommodata, Petrucci, Perugia, 1579, p. 220

John Carter Brown Collections

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Franciscans (O.F.M.)MartyrdomMexicoNative AmericansSpanish America

Veneziani, Agostino - Aspertini, Amico, After

The Sacrifice of Abel (1530-1535)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

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

Keywords: AbelAnimal Sacrifice CainHuman Sacrifices

Veneziano, Agostino

Lycaon at left, with the face of a wolf, carrying an axe over his left shoulder and approaching Jupiter (1523)

from: Italy

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksGreek mythologyLykaon

Veneziano, Agostino (Agostino de Musis)

Amor and Psyche. Psyche's father consults the oracle, animals for sacrifice (1530)

from: Apuleius, La novella di Psiche, Rome, 1530-1560, Plate: 4

The Warburg Institute, London

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice ApuleiusBullSheep

Veronese, Paolo

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1580-1588)

from: Venice

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, GenesisBible, Old TestamentItalyRam

Vignon, Claude

Saint Catherine refusing to sacrifice to idols (1623-1625)

Louvre, Paris

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: IdolatryMartyrdomSelf-Sacrifice

Villerey, Antoine Claude François, after Nanine Vallain 1754-1828

Spanish conquistadors discovering victims of human sacrifices among the Incas (?) [1790-1799]

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: AmericasHuman SacrificeInca Empire