Editor: Chiara Petrolini – Image Gallery

Unknown

Santiago matamoros (XIII)

from: Guitiriz, Lugo (Spain)

Church of Santa María de Labrada (frescos)

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificeIslamReconquistaSpain

Finiguerra, Maso - Baldini, Baccio

Samson pulling down the column of the temple (1470)

from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentItalySamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Anonymous / Unknown

Cain killing Abel, besides Cain and Abel sacrificing (1456)

from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 81.15, fol. 34r

Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

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

Keywords: BibleCain and AbelFireGermanyManuscript

Sarkavag, T'oros

The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)

from: Gospels, Armenia

Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacArmeniaFireHuman SacrificesManuscript

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Sacrifice for priestly ordination (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol 2, p. 324, Tafel 203 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Ex 29,1

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 50 / emanuscripta

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleDrawingFireLeviticus

Anonymous / Unknown

Religious practices of the native Americans of Peru. Priests sacrifice animals on a bonfire, throw rocks with serpents or snakes and animals painted on them, and eviscerate animals. (1671)

from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 309

John Carter Brown Library

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireNative AmericansPeru

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Himmelfeuer (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 384, Tafel 227 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 10,2

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 67 / emanuscripta

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

Keywords: BibleFire

Gherardi, Cristofaro

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1555)

Cortona, Museo Diocesano (Italy)

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacFrescoHuman SacrificeIsaac

Anonymous / Unknown

Vedic fire ritual (homa) as part of the Raja-suya sacrifice of Yudhisthira at his capital Indra-prastha. One of the Pandavas stands before the sacrificial fire and his attendants stand before the priests. (1670-1680)

from: Bilaspur

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: FireIndiaMahābhārata

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Sacrificial Knife (1648)

from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 158

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

Keywords: AntiquarianismHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamericaNative Americans

Delignon, Jean Louis

Goat and she-goat, turned to right, adorned for sacrifice (1626-1704)

from: Ohsson, Ignace Mouradja d', Tableau général de l'Empire othoman, Paris, Didot, 1787-1820, vol. 2

Wikimedia

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismGoatGoatsIslamOttoman EmpireTravelogues

Bonasone, Giulio

People lighting torches from a concave mirror reflecting the sun and worshippers offering their hearts. Emblems of Achilles Bocchius. (1555)

from: Bologna

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AllegoryFire

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

Anonymous / Unknown

In left background the death of Samson among the pillars of the temple (1625-1630)

from: Icones Biblicae', published by Merian in Frankfurt

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentSamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Küsel, Melchior

The Jesuit Diego Alfaro, killed in the battle of Caazapá-guazú in which he fought alongside the Guaraní Indians against the Brazilian bandeirantes (1675)

from: Tanner, Mathias, Societas Iesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, Prague 1675

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

Keywords: BrazilChristian MissionaryGuaraní peopleJesuits (S.J.)

Beatrizet, Nicolas 1507-1577

The sacrifice to Iphigenia (1553)

Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett

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

Keywords: Ancient RitualsAncient SacrificesFireIphigenia

Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio

Pagan sacrifice (17th)

from: Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe

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

Keywords: Pagan Sacrifice

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael 1434-1519

Scapegoat sent to the wilderness where five wild beasts are waiting to devour it, and secondly the sacrifice of an ox (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 23v

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentJewish StudiesMishnahoxRamScapegoat

Mignon, Jean [After work attributed to Francesco Primaticcio] 1532-1557

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1545]

from: Fontainebleau, France

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBible, GenesisHuman sacrificeIsaac

Cranach the Elder, Lucas

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara [1510]

from: Germnany

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: GenderMartyrdomWomen

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

Fantetti, Cesare; Aquila, Pietro (After Raffaello Sanzio)

The Sacrifice of Noah (1675)

from: Imagines Veteris Ac Novi Testamenti A Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani

Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Nazionale; Pio; volume 8F.PIO

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleCamelFireNoahoxRam

Unknown

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

Anonymous / Unknown

The Lambe speaketh. Anti-catholic satire with a wolf-headed Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, biting the neck of a sacrificial lamb suspended by its hind legs above an altar; to right, the bishops of London and Durham, the dean of Westminster and other Roman Catholic clerics (all with wolves' heads) drink the blood that spurts from the lamb; at Gardiner's feet lie six further lambs bearing the names of Cranmer, Ridley and other Protestant reformers; at upper left, three men pull at a rope tied around Gardiner's neck (members of the House of Lords who threw out Gardiner's heresy bill on 1 May 1554) while at lower left a group of gullible men (the Commons who had passed the bill a month earlier) are attached from rings in their noses to a rope around Gardiner's waist; the Pope as the devil appears top right (1555)

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Anti-Catholic ControversyEngravingsMassProtestantism

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1072)

from: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cod. lat. 8878, folio 8

Paris, BnF

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacFranceIsaacManuscript

Callot, Jacques

Le Culte de Dieu (The Worship of God), from Les Sacrifices (The Sacrifices) (1625-1627)

from: http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42582956v

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Topics:
0. General bibliography (19^th-21^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Woollett, William

A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite (1785)

from: Cook, James - King, James (1785) Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery , in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. In three volumes. and a fourth folio volume with engravings, known as Atlas

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: EngravingsHuman SacrificesPacific OceanTahiti

Anonymous / Unknown

Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent (1475)

from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd]

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Roman master mosaicist of Saint Apollinare in Classe

Sacrifices of Abel, Abraham and Melchizedek

Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna

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

Keywords: AbelLambMelchisedec

Unknown

Ritual knife (grigug), Tibet (18th)

London, V&A Museum

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

Keywords: BuddhismKnifeTibet

Göding, Heinrich

Saxons worshipping their gods; the deities on a temple structure on l, priests dressed as bishops on r, smoke rising from sacrifices at centre. (1597)

from: Illustration to Peter Albinus, 'Außzug der Eltisten und fürnembsten Historien des uralten streitbarn und beruffenen Volcks der Sachssen ...', (Dresden) 1597. 1597 Hand-coloured etching and letterpress

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: FireNorthern EuropePagan SacrificeSaxons

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

Raffaello Sanzio 1483–1520

The Mass at Bolsena (1512)

Stanza di Eliodoro, Raphael Rooms, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

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

Keywords: Christ's SacrificeEucharistFrescoMass

Anonymous / Unknown

German broadsheet showing pilgrims visiting the relics of Simon, in a position known as victima. Bound with the account of Matthia Tiberino [description provided by Magda Teter] (1475)

from: Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, Rar. 338

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

Satī. Gentile women of the caste of the cattle drivers, who is buried alive with her husband after he had died [1540]

Codice Casanatense, Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, fol. 64r, Rome

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

Keywords: FireIndiaManuscriptSatīWomen

William Blake 1757-1827

Job's Sacrifice

Morgan Library & Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Bible, JobDrawing

Anonymous /Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1280)

from: Psalter, St John College, Cambridge, MS K.26 fol. 10r

St John College, Cambridge

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacEnglandHuman SacrificesManuscriptPsalter

Maerten Van Heemskerck (artist) - Philips Galle (engraver) 1498-1574 / 1537-1612

The fire consuming Elijah's sacrifice

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice ElijahFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham leading Isaac to the sacrifice (Ethiopian manuscript) [1800-1890]

Paris, BnF, Ms Ethiopien 389, fol. 9v

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAfricaEthiopiaIsaacManuscript

Fuchs, J.

Human sacrifice among the Khonds in India: a victim (meriah) about to be dismembered (1860)

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: Human SacrificeIndia

Mallet

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.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Kollwitz, Käthe

The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (1922)

New York, MoMA

Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: War

Raffello Sanzio (Raphael)

(1509-1510)

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

Keywords: Christ's SacrificeEucharistFrescoRome

Anonymous / Unknown

Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)

from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]

Stabi, Berlin

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

Keywords: BibleHuman SacrificesJephthahWomen

Unknown

The Binding of Isaac (245)

from: Fresco in a mid-third Century Dura Europos Synagogue

Damascus National Museum

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 IsaacBindingIsaacJewish StudiesJewsJudaismKnife

Unknown

Sacrificing the Sabine cow (1470-1480)

from: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, trad. Simon de Hesdin et Nicolas de Gonesse (Bruges)

Paris, BnF, Français 289 f.329v

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice Blood

Anonymous / Unknown

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)

Museo provinciale Alto Adige

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Unknown

Tite page from: Willem Surenhuys (ed), Mischna sive totius hebraeorum juris, rituum, antiquitatum, ac legum oralium sytema, cum clarissimorum rabbinorum Maimonidis & Bartenorae commentariis integris, Amsterdam, 1698-1703, vol. 1

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismFireJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesMaimonidesMishnah

Anonymous / Unknown

An illustration from the Ramayana. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa protect the rishis' sacrificial fire from the rakṣasas (demons) (1800-1805)

from: This is from a series of eighty-four paintings on European paper and was once stored in a folder labelled: 'Ramayana Subjects, Deccani School: 1800-1805 (on European paper)'.

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: IndiaRamayana

Anonymous / Unknown (after Maarten van Heemskerck)

Samson and Delilah, beyond Samson forces two columns and causes the temple to collapse; (1553)

from: Martinus . Hemskerck. Inventor / Hieronimus. Cock. excud. 1553

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, JudgesBible, Old TestamentSamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Küsel, Melchior

P. Petrus Diaz Lusit. S.I. cum 4 Sociis in itinere Brasilo pro Fide Christi ab Hareticis in mari demersus.’. Pero Dias is thrown into the ocean (1675)

from: Tanner, Mathias, Societas Iesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, Prague 1675, p. 174

John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

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

Keywords: BrazilCalvinismJesuits (S.J.)Martyrdom

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

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1581]

from: Ishâq al-Nishâpûrî, Histoire du Coran ou Histoires des prophètes et des rois du passé. Qesas al-anbiyâ [Persan 54, fol. 32v]

Paris, BnF, ms Persan 54 fol. 32v

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 IsaacAngelHuman SacrificeIconographyIranIsaacIshmaelIslamKnifeManuscriptPersiaRamSacrifice ComparedSafavid

Anonymous / Unknown

King Sagara performs a sacrifice (1712)

from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda

British Library, Add. 15295, f.105

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AsvamedhaHorsesIndiaKingshipVedic

Wynrich, Hermann, von Wese

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1378-1413)

from: Speculum humanae salvationis

Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal.lat.413, fol. 35v

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacAngelFireManuscript

Galle, Philips (After a drawing by Maarten van Heemskerck) 1537–1612

Noah's Sacrifice (1569)

from: Haarlem, Netherlands

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleFireNoah

Dürer, Albrecht

The Adoration of the Lamb - The Song of the Elect (1511)

Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice ApocalypseBibleLamb

Bartoli, Pietro Santi (after Raffaello Sanzio) 1635-1700

The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1675)

Royal Collection Trust

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

Keywords: AbelAbel and CainAgricoltureAnimal Sacrifice Bible, GenesisCainFire

Ulrich, Heinrich

The Sacrifice of Abraham (1609)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman Sacrifices

Mauch, Daniel (school of)

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)

Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

Visscher, Claes Jansz.

Landscape with Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac in left foreground, (1605-1652)

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacHuman SacrificeIsaac

Allori, Alessandro

I diecimila martiri del monte Ararat (1574)

from: Fondazione Federico Zeri

Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Firenze

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

Keywords: AltarpieceMartyrdomTen thousand martyrs

Unknown

The martyrdom of the prophet Zakariya, who, taking refuge in a tree, was sawn in half by two men. (1605 - 1610)

from: This album of 104 folios known as the Clive Album

London, V&A Museum

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

Keywords: Human SacrificeIndiaIslamManuscriptMartyrdomMughalZakarîyâ (Zacharias)

Yitzhak Kanterini

Et Ketz (Mystical and Kabbalistic literature) (1710)

from: Yechacham – Rabbi Yitzchak Chaim HaCohen of the Kantorini Chazanim, Et Ketz, Amsterdam, Shlomo Proops 1710

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificesJewish Studies

Joseph Mendes Da-Costa

Abraham (1907)

London, Christie's

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

Keywords: Abraham and Isaac

Jakob ben Shneur

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1348)

from: Mahzor

Darmstadt | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Cod. Or 13, fol. 202

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 IsaacBibleHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsKnifeRam

De Bry, Theodor de - White, John

The tomb of the weroans – An Algonquian burial house showing bodies on a raised platform and a priest squatting by a fire beneath the platform. (1590)

from: Thomas Hariot, Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, Franckfort am Mayn, Wechel-De Bry, 1590, plate 22

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

Keywords: Algonquian peoplesAmericasFireNative Americans

Unknown

Title page of Mizbeah olah, seu de ara exteriore templi secundi exercitationes philologicae (1697)

from: Cramer, Johannes-Jacobus,

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

Keywords: FireJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

[Schley, Jacobus van der]

Cimetierre des Sacrifices (Cemetery of Sacrifices) (1745)

from: Prévost, Antoine François, Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues, Paris, Didot, 1754, vol. 12, p. after 544

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesMesoamericaMexicoNative Americans

Anonymous / Unknown

Human sacrifice in the forest (1660)

from: Johan Picardt, Korte beschryvinge van eenige vergetene en verborgene antiquiteten ... in het antiquiteet-rijcke landschap Drenth, Tymon Houthaak, Amsterdam, 1660, fol. 67

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: FireForestHuman SacrificesPagan SacrificePrint

Unknown

The martyrdom of Jan van Essen and Hendrik Voes (1563)

from: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

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

Keywords: Lutheran martyrsMartyrdomProtestantism

Unknown

Sati Stone (s.d.)

from: Rajasthan, India

London, British Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

[Purkhu and his workshop]

Rama accompanied by a golden statue of Sita performs the Ashwamehda Yajna. The sage Valmiki participates. They sit before a ritual Yajna fire. [1790]

from: folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Sotheby's

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaRamayanaVedic

Pieter Jalhea Furnius - Gerard van Groeningen 1545-1625

The sacrifice at the altar of Apollo (1571)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1597)

Augsburg, Dom

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacAngelFireGermanyRam

Callot, Jacques

Culte du Démon (The Cult of the Demon), from Les Sacrifices (The Sacrifices) (1625-1627)

from: http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42582956v

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Topics:
0. General bibliography (19^th-21^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Unknown

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

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Suovetaurilia

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac [1470]

from: Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 89, fol. 53r

Bibliothèque municipale, Marseille

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBibleGenesisHuman SacrificesIsaacManuscript

Tempesta, Antonio 1555-1630

Sacrificio di Ietro

Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini

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Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentExodusFire

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael; Gallensdorfer, Sebald 1434 -1519

Opfer an Priapus (1493-1497)

from: Buchprojekt des Titels Archetypus triumphantis Romae[Germany]

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. 183-1920

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice AssPriapus

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael

Offering of the first-born in the Temple (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 26r

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentChild SacrificeFirstbornsGermanyHuman SacrificeJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesTempleWoodcut

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1400-1410)

from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 34]

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleBible, Old TestamentHuman SacrificesIsaac

Doré, Gustave

Le sacrifice humain allait s'accomplir (1857)

BnF, Gallica

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

Keywords: FranceHuman Sacrifice

Unknown

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

from: Bible moralisée (Bruges)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, KB, 76 E 7

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

Keywords: BibleBible, 2 Maccabees

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham's sacrifice. This is the sacrifice of Isaac on the altar and the ram caught by its horns (ca 1278-98)

from: North French Hebrew Miscellany [ Add. MS 11639 fol. 521v]

British Library, London

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleJewish Studies

Zambelli, Damiano (Detto Fra' Damiano Da Bergamo)

(1528-1530)

Bologna, Chiesa di San Domenico (coro ligneo)

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, Old TestamentBolognaItaly

Anonymous / Unknown

Miniature llama figurine, wrought in hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering to the mountain gods, accompanying a human sacrifice (1500-1532)

from: Peru

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

Vogel, Georg

The Chochin Chinese sacrifice the first fruits of the year to their god Fo (1787 -1810)

from: A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation

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

Keywords: AgricoltureAsiaSacrifice ComparedTraveloguesVietnam

Anonymous / Unknown

Scene of a sati. In the foreground, a widowed woman (encountered by Della Valle on November 12, 1623) on horseback holds a mirror and a lemon amidst a crowd. In the background, a woman throws herself into the flames of a funeral pyre (1665)

from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 5, pag. 163

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Keywords: FireIndiaSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Holbein the Elder, Hans

The Sacrifice of Elijah (1543)

from: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon, Subscuto coloniensis, apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, frates, 1543

Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: BibleElijah

Mayer, Felix

The Sacrifice of Isaac (Gehorsame, The Obedient) (1675)

Universitätsbibliothek Zürich

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Unknown

Scene of Sacrifice (16th)

from: Codex Telleriano-Remensis

Paris, BnF, Mexicain 385, fol. 41v

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Keywords: AztecAztec . MexicoHuman Sacrifice

Unknown

Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, (c. 1710)

from: folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Court of Amar Singh II

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Keywords: HinduIndiaKingshipRamayana