Editor: Chiara Petrolini – Image Gallery

Hooghe, Romeyn de

In the left foreground a camel is being slaughtered. Religion in Japan. Shown are all kinds of large and small statues of gods. With legend in Dutch and French. (1682)

from: Vries, Simon de. Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, deel 3, p. 109. Utrecht: J. Ribbius, 1682

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: AntiquarianismCamelCamelsOrientalismSacrifice Compared

Anonymous / Unknown

Scene of a Sati, with a woman throwing herself into the flames amid a crowd playing trumpets. Above, a winged devil holds the banner with the book's title and the torch with which he lights the ritual fire. (1670)

from: Abraham Rogerius, Le Théâtre de l’idolatrie ou la porte ouverte, Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, title page

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

Keywords: AntiquarianismFireIndiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

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

Raimondi, Marcantonio (after Albrecht Dürer)

Joachim's sacrifice is rejected (1500-1527)

Albertina, Vienna

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

Keywords: BibleJoachim

Giolfino, Niccolò

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (15-16th)

from: Italy

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wheatland Object Number 1943.1841

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAncient SacrificesHuman SacrificesIphigeniaPaintings

Collaert, Adriaen - De Vos, Maarten - Galle, Philips 560-1618

Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)

Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Christ's SacrificeFireJewish StudiesMassPagan SacrificeSacrifice Compared

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

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

Keywords: HinduIndiaKingshipRamayana

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

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

Anonymous / Unknown (after Paolo Farinati)

Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines (XVII)

Venezia, Museo Correr ( cl.III 1443)

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentSamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Master of the Aeneid

Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (1530–35)

from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)

The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ManuscriptPagan Sacrifice

Unknown

Sati Stone (18th)

from: Madhya Pradesh, Orchha, India

Jahangir Mahal Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatīSatiWomen

[Bilal Habshi]

Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire (1598)

from: from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Keywords: IndiaIranManuscriptMughalPersia

Anonymous / Unknown

An Indian Woman Burning (1780)

from: Moore, Voyages and Travels, 1780

London, Wellcome Collection

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: FireIndiaSacrificeSatiSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Griselini, Francesco - Calimani, Simon

The Sacrifice of Isaac (frontispiece with eleven biblical miniatures centering around the Sacrifice of Isaac) (1739)

from: BIBLE, Hebrew. Arba'ah ve-Esrim [Complete Hebrew Bible with Italian glosses and with engravings by Francesco Griselini]. Venice: Bragadini for Isaac Foa, 1739.

Braginsky Collection (Zürich & Amsterdam)

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 IsaacBibleBindingFrontispiceIsaacJewish Studies

Anonymous / Unknown

Execution of Jews in Trent (1475)

from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 10v

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

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

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Sacrifice of Birds and Fat (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 380, Tafel 224 (ZB III ZZ 55) Illustriert Lev 1,8-14

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 64 / 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 BibleBirdsFattFire

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael

Samson pulling down the house at Gaza (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 35v

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentGermanyMartyrdomSamsonSelf-SacrificeWoodcut

Fazuli

Ibrahim about to sacrifice Ismail. Cebrail (Gabriel) stands nearby holding the ram. (Late 16th/Early 17th)

from: A miniature painting from a manuscript of Hadikat us-suada, a history of the holy martyrs of the Prophet's family [Ms Or. 12009, fol.19v]

British Library, London [from Turkey]

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 IsaacIranIslamPersia

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1320)

from: Golden Haggadah (northern Spain)

London, British Library, Add 27210, fol. 4v

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 HaggadahHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJudaism

Anonymous / Unknown

Two humans are sacrificed on this picture. One is drowned in a holy spring and one is burned. The man with a sword symbolizes probably another way of sacrificing of humans. To the right worshipping people. (1555)

from: Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Roma,Giovanni M. Viotto, 1555 (Book 3, Ch. 7, On the Geats’ Worship and Sacrifice, De sacrisi, et sacrificiis Gothorum).

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

Keywords: GeatsHuman SacrificesNorthern EuropeScandinaviaSweden

Unknown

Sacrificial Knife (Indonesia, West Java, Koetjang)

from: Indonesia, West Java, Koetjang

Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde

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

Keywords: KnifeSouth East AsiaSoutheast Asia

Tempesta, Antonio (Atelier of)

A doctor sacrificing a rooster to Aesculapius [1540-1619]

Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice AsclepiusDrawingRooster

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1275–1324)

from: Haggadah for Passover according to Spanish rite (the 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah') Created: 1275–1324, Castile, Spain Hebrew

London, British Library, ms Orriental 2737

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 IsaacHaggadahHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKnife

Unknown

Sacrifice of Jephthah (1461)

from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Belgium)

Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 245, fol. 125

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

Keywords: BibleBible, JudgesHuman SacrificeJephthahWomen

Delaune, Étienne

Hercule Offrant un Sacrifice à Diane (1573)

from: Strasbourg

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice EngravingsHercules

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

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac [1470]

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

Bibliothèque municipale, Marseille

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBibleGenesisHuman SacrificesIsaacManuscript

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

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 32v

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelBible, GenesisBible, Old TestamentFireGermanyHuman SacrificeIsaacRamWoodcut

Unknown

Two boys preparing to sacrifice a young buffalo, Vārānasi , India (1920)

Yale University Library

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IndiaKnifePhotograph

Frans Post 1612-1680

Brasilian Landscape with Manoah's Sacrifice (1648)

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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

Keywords: BibleBrazil

Raffello Sanzio (Raphael)

(1509-1510)

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

Keywords: Christ's SacrificeEucharistFrescoRome

[Lombardo, Pietro]

Relief of Samson destroying the Temple (XVI)

Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Sala Capitolare, portale dello scalone

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentSamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Avraham ben Yaakov Ha-Levi from Ahrweiler Yosef ben Elazar from Mainz

The Sacrifice of Isaac

from: Germany

Frankfurt Stadtbibliothek, Ms. Hebr. Oct. 31, fol. 21v

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 IsaacBibleBindingGermanyIsaacJewish StudiesJewsManuscript

Pfefferkorn, Johann 1469-1523

Ich heyss ein buchlein der iude[n] beicht (1508)

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AtonementChickenGermanyJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKapparot

Anonymous / Unknown

Coutume des Sacrifices chez les Angolais (The practice of sacrificing among the Angolans) (1729)

from: Aa, Pieter van der, Galerie agreable du monde, Leiden. Pierre vander Aa, 1729

The Library Company of Philadelphia

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: AfricaAngolaFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Dasaratha and his wives perform sacrifices so that they may be blessed with sons.Inscribed on the reverse: ‘Dasaratha Rajah performs Putrakamesti (or sacrifice in desire of sons) (ca 1900)

from: Add MS Or 521

British Library, London

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

Keywords: IndiaWomen

Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi

Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)

from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

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: FireGenderIndiaIranIslamManuscriptMughalPersiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Tempesta, Antonio 1555-1630

Sacrificio di Ietro

Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentExodusFire

Unknown

Jewish sacrificing children to demons (IX^th Century)

from: Psalterium, Constantinople / Istanbul

Paris, BnF, Grec. 20, fol. 18

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeJewish StudiesManuscriptPsalms

Moses Uri ben Shraga Bloch; Abraham bar Eliezer Katz

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1692)

from: Ze'enah u-Re'enah

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, A. Hebr. 106, fol. 15v

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 IsaacBibleIsaacJewish StudiesJews

Anonymous / Unknown

Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]

from: Razmnāmah by Abhinanda, India (The last volume of the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned in 990 by Akbar)

London, British Library, Or 12076 folio: 90v

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaIslamMughalPersiaSafavidSelf-Sacrifice

Unknown

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

Anonymous / Unknown

A scene of Sati ritual Souryabha. Femme duchadja Jasingha se brulant. On represente icy la maniere en laquelle se brusla une femme de Radja Jasing appellée en la langue Indienne - Souryabha, qui veut dire lumiere du soleil, elle se brusla sans faire paroistre acucune crainte du feu ni de la mort. (1678-1686)

from: Nicolo Manucci, Histoire de l'Inde depuis Tamerlank jusquà Orangzeb [ms Libro Rosso, fol. 50v]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: FireIndiaManuscriptSatīSatiSelf-Sacrifice

Unknown

Suttee. Gouache painting by an Indian artist (s.d.)

from: India

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireIndiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Gerson, Juan [1561-1592]

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1562)

from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art

Sotocoro, Temple of the Franciscan Ex-Convent of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico

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 IsaacAmericasCatholic MissionariesFranciscans (O.F.M.)FrescoIsaacMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrificial Knife (1634)

from: Liceti, Fortunio, Pyronarcha, sive, De fulminum natura deque febrium origine, Crivellarum, Padua, 1634, p. 123

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

Keywords: AntiquarianismHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamericaNative Americans

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Samson, mocked by the Philistines, throws down the pillars of the house [1350-1400]

from: Speculum humanae salvationis metrice cum figuris pictis (Germany)

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cim 3003

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

Keywords: GermanySamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Chaperon, Nicolas

Sacrifice of Noah (1649)

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

Istituto Centrale per la Grafica

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleNoah

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham carrying a torch and a sword, followed by Isaac with firewood, who has no banderole with text (15th)

from: Speculum humanae salvationis Stiftsbibliothek - Cod. 166, fol. 24v

Neustift bei Brixen (Novacella), Stiftsbibliothek

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrificial scene before the Golden Calf (16th-17th)

Albertina, Vienna

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentCalf

Maître de l'atelier de Blanche de Castille

The Sacrifice of Isaac (13th)

from: Psalterium [psautier latin dit de saint Louis et de Blanche de Castille]

Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-1186 réserve, fol. 13v

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacFireHuman SacrificeIsaacManuscriptRam

Anonymous / Unknown

Brahmin undergoing the test of fire after prolonged penance and yoga practices; Yogi dragging heavy iron chains; and a man tied to a tree who has chosen to embrace death (1670)

from: Abraham Rogerius, Le Théâtre de l’idolatrie ou la porte ouverte, Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, p. 252

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

Keywords: FireIndiaSelf-Sacrifice

Dürer, Albrecht

The Circumcision of the infant Christ (1503-1505)

from: Germany. Series: Life of the Virgin

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Christcircumcision

Holbein the Elder, Hans

The Sacrifice of Ahaz (1543)

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

Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: AhazBible

Sun'i

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

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 IsaacHuman SacrificesIsaacIslamManuscriptOttoman Empire

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Heilige Himmelsfeuer (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol 2, p. 382, Tafel 226 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 9,24

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 66 / emanuscripta

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

Keywords: BibleDrawingFire

Bry, Johann-Theodor de

Tenochtitlan, human sacrifice on Templo Mayor.VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent (1602)

from: Jansz, Bernhardus - Bry, Theodor de. [Collectio peregrinationum in Indiam occidentalem] : 9 : Americæ Nona & postrema Pars. Qua de Ratione Elementorum: De Novi Orbis Natura: De Huius Incolarum Superstitiosis cultibus, Frankfurt, Bekerum, 1602, VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexicoNative AmericansTenochtitlan

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

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac (Bild des Stark-Gläubigen) (1720)

from: Winterthur

Universitätsbibliothek Zürich

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Thiry, Leonard (After Primaticcio, Francesco)

Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)

Warburg Insitute, London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesPriapus

Unknown

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

[Jollain, Gérard ]

The sacrifice of Samuel at Masfa and the flight of the Philistines [1650]

from: France

Istituto d'Arte Duccio di Boninsegna

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

Keywords: BibleBible, Old TestamentSamuel

[Wiener Meister]

Sacifice scene [1420-1430]

from: Codex Historienbibel, Vienna

Albertina, Vienna

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)

from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksHuman SacrificesManuscriptPolyxenaWomen

Zambelli, Damiano (Detto Fra' Damiano Da Bergamo)

(1528-1530)

Bologna, Chiesa di San Domenico (coro ligneo)

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, Old TestamentBolognaItaly

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

[Schley, Jacobus van der]

Human Sacrifice to Vitzilipuztli (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 AmericansVitzilipuztli

Hirschvogel, Augustin

Samson breaks down the pillars of the temple and kills the Philistines and himself. (1547)

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

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

Keywords: SamsonSelf-SacrificeTemple

Celesti, Andrea 1637-1711

Jewish Sacrifice

from: Venezia, Chiesa degli Incurabili

Venezia, Gallerie dell'Accademia

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

Keywords: FireJewish PriestJewish Sacrifice

Marshall, William

Title page of Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies. Viz. The Sect of the Banians, the Ancient Natives of India and the Sect of the Perses, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia, together with the Religion and Maners of Each Sect, London 1630 (1630)

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

Keywords: FireIndiaPersia

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

Regnard, Valérian

The Circumcision of Christ (1620-1626)

from: France. Series: Vita Deiparae Virginis Mariae

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

Keywords: Christcircumcision

Canova, Antonio 1757-1822

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1822)

from: Modello in gesso per metope del Tempio della Trinità di Possagno

Venezia, Gallerie dell'Accademia

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Human SacrificeIsaac

Anonymous /Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1212-1220)

from: Psalter, Oxford, MS M.43 fol. 11r

Morgan Library and Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacEnglandHuman SacrificesManuscriptPsalter

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac. Isaac carries the wood for the sacrifice to Moriah (1470)

from: peculum humanae salvationis, Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 89, fol. 22v

Bibliothèque municipale, Marseille

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleGenesisHuman SacrificesManuscript

Woeiriot, Pierre

The sacrifice of Elijah on Mount Carmel [1531]

Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli

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

Keywords: BibleBible, Old TestamentElijah

Zorn, Peter

Ritual Sacrifice of a Calf (1712)

from: Theophili Amilii... Erörterung der dunckelsten und schwersten Schrifft-Stellen im N. Testament, Franckfurt, Samuel Heyl, 1712

Wikimedia & google books

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 BibleJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKnife

Unknown

Sati Stone (18-19th)

from: Madhya Pradesh, India

Jahangir Mahal Museum

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: GenderHinduSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

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

Pinsel, Johann Georg 1715-1762

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1759-1760)

from: Hodowica, Ukraine [at the time: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacHuman SacrificeIsaacSculptureUkraine

[Master of the Barbo Missal]

Temple Worship [1471]

from: Mishneh Torah, Opening panel to Sefer Avodah (Italy or Spain)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 CalfFireJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesMaimonidesRitual SlaughteringTemple

Fogolino, Marcello

Episodi della vita di Lorenzino da Marostica (1520-40)

Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeJewish Studies

La Sueur, Nicolas (after Maturino da Firenze, 1490-1527)

(1729)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BaalElijahFire

Unknown

Mass of St. Gregory (Aztec Amanteca, Mexican feather work)

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 4. Sacrifice and Eucharist (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: EucharistMexico

Coecke van Aelst, Pieter

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1529-1530)

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksBarnabasLystraPagan SacrificeSaint Paul

Anonymous / Unknown

A Gentoo Woman Burning herself (1768)

from: Cavendish Drake, E. A, Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, London, J. Cooke, 1768

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: FireIndiaSacrificeSatiSatīWomen

Dupérac, Etienne

Suovetaurilia; at right bulls, rams and boars being brought towards the altar positioned in front of the entrance of a circular temple, various animals being sacrificed to left. (1566)

from: An illustration to Onofrio Panvinio's 'De Ludis Circensibus', published in Rome

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice BoarBullKnifeRamRitual SlaughteringSuovetaurilia

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

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1700-1750)

from: Bulgaria

Bruxelles, Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacEastern EuropeIsaac

Martyrdom of Saint Simonino

Saint Simon of Trent holding the flag and a shield; standing on the body of a male figure; in a border with flowers on black ground; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511 (1511)

from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511

British Museum

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

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

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

Topics:
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

Gieng, Hans

Kindlifresserbrunnen (Child Eater Fountain). This figure goes probably back to the carnivalesque image of the child-eater, which has been linked both to Saturn and to the blood-libel against Jews (1542)

Bern, Switzerland.

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

Keywords: Blood LibelChild SacrificeSwitzerland

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of Isaac [1510]

from: Siena

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleCeramicDishHuman Sacrifices