Editor: Chiara Petrolini – Image Gallery
Aztec temple, sacrifices to Huītzilōpōchtli (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
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1625)
from: Iconum Biblicarum, Part I [= Icones Biblicae], p. 45
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
Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb (1539)
from: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Paris 1539 (Denys Janot), Vol. 3, p. 150
Scene of Jewish offering (1470)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1560)
Royal Library of Belgium
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
Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)
Warburg Insitute, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1716)
from: Germany
The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel Ms. Heb. 8° 2380 (Book of Evronot, fol. 80v)
Pagan burnt offering in ancient Austria (1734-1737)
from: Alt- und Neues Oesterreich, Oder Compendieuse Universal-Historie Von dem alt- und neuen, geistlich und weltlichen Zustand dieses Lands, Bd. 4: Oesterreichisches Heydenthum, oder Völcker-Beschreibung der alten Zeiten vor und unter den Römern […], Wien: Heyinger, 1737
UB Heidelberg, B 6526 A RES
Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines (XVII)
Venezia, Museo Correr ( cl.III 1443)
Scene of Animal Sacrifice (1668)
from: Der gantzen Welt Religionen oder Beschreibung aller Gottes- und Götzendienste wie auch Ketzereyen in Asia, Africa, America und Europa, Amsterdam, Joach. Nosch, 1668
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
The martyrdom of Jan van Essen and Hendrik Voes (1563)
from: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Pedro de Espinosa kneels before a vision of the Virgin Mary and Child while a native American prepares to kill him with an ax or hatchet. Paraguay in 1637 (1676)
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. 495
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1612-1613)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The sacrifice of Elijah on Mount Carmel [1531]
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Martyrdom of Zakariya (XVI)
from: ishâq nishâbûrî, qisas-i qur'ân. [Qazvin, Iran]
Paris, BnF, Persan 54, fol. 144v
The Circumcision of the infant Christ (1503-1505)
from: Germany. Series: Life of the Virgin
British Museum, London
Simon on the altar (“victima”) (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 9v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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
a man sacrificing a fowl to one of the best known charms among the Akan, the nkabere charm. (18th-20th)
from: Ghana (The Kyekyere Nkabere charm (lit. to tie or bind the nkabere) was a common rite carried out throughout the Asante region during the pre-colonial and early colonial era).
British Museum, London
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
Satrughna is wounded by Kusa and Lava during Rama's horse-sacrifice (1616)
from: Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of Razmnama
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, SS_22349926
Episodi della vita di Lorenzino da Marostica (1520-40)
Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio
Satī (17th)
from: Manuscript, Iran
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
Self-sacrifice of King Codrus of Athens (1432)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Ms Vit. 25-7 (olim B. 19), fol. 24r
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
Jews put to the flames (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 11v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Samson breaks down the pillars of the temple and kills the Philistines and himself. (1547)
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Barbaric Sacrifice of the Mexicans (1770)
from: Jean-François de La Croix, Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux établis dans le monde depuis son origine jusqu'à présent... - Paris : Vincent, 1770, vol. 3, part. 2, p. 42
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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
The Sacrifice of Gideon (1400-1410)
from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 129v
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282
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
Jephtha sacrificing his daughter (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 34v
British Museum, London
The sacrifice of Isaac (16th)
Christie's, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1700-1750)
from: Bulgaria
Bruxelles, Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis
Sacrifice of Codrus [1350 - 1400]
from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Bologna) [Arsenal, Ms 593, fol. 18v]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Quetzalcoatl
from: V. Cartari - L. Pignoria, Seconda Novissima Editione Delle Imagini De Gli Dei Delli Antichi, 1626, p. 557
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd]
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Sacrifice of Joachim (1303-1305)
Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova
Martyrdom of Fray Francisco Lopez who stands before a group of native Americans who have shot him and six other Franciscans with arrows. The other Franciscans are Juan de Padilla, Antonio de Cuellar, Alois de Villa[lobos], Pedro Burgos, Francisco Donzelis, and Juan Serrano (1625)
from: Marianus, de Orscelar, Gloriosus Franciscus rediuiuus siue Chronica observantae strictioris ... eiusdemque per Christianos orbes, non solùm, sed & Americam, Peru, ... Indos Orientis, Ingolstadt, Wilhelmi Ederi, 1625, p. 330
John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
A Pagan Sacrifice (1526)
National Gallery, London
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
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
A scene with fakirs and ritualistic animal sacrificeFaquires Bequedes Mahometans (1678-1686)
from: Nicolo Manucci, Histoire de l'Inde depuis Tamerlank jusquà Orangzeb [ms Libro Rosso, fol. 50v]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
Relief of Samson destroying the Temple (XVI)
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Sala Capitolare, portale dello scalone
Chased from Chapultepec, the Aztecs, led by their chief Tenoch, offer gifts to the king of Colhuacan and settle in the city; above, a group witnessing a sacrifice ceremony (ca 1596)
from: Tira de Tepechpan [Ms Mexicain 13–14, planche 4]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Sacrifice of propitiation (1601)
from: , engraved illustration from Louis Richeome, Les tableaux sacrez (Paris, Sonnius: 1601), pag. 318
The sacrifice at the altar of Apollo (1571)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sacrifce of Isaac [1550 - 1599]
from: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 34I1
Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
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
Le sacrifice humain allait s'accomplir (1857)
BnF, Gallica
The sacrifice of Samuel at Masfa and the flight of the Philistines [1650]
from: France
Istituto d'Arte Duccio di Boninsegna
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.
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
A king sacrifices an animal in front of the statue of Thor (1639)
RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
Samson breaking the pillars of the house of the Philistines (1535)
from: Chronica, Beschreybung und gemeyne anzeyge, Vonn aller Wellt herkommen....', Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, 1535
The British Museum, London
Persons bringing sacrifices to Hercules (1629)
from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 494.
The Warburg Institute, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac [1200-1300]
from: Les « Histoires Roger », ou Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César , composée par un clerc sous les auspices du châtelain de Lille, Roge
Paris, BnF, Français 20125, fol. 35
Sacrificial Knife (1634)
from: Liceti, Fortunio, Pyronarcha, sive, De fulminum natura deque febrium origine, Crivellarum, Padua, 1634, p. 123
Sacrifice of Isaac [1585 - 1650]
Louvre, Paris
Yamata no Orochi venant réclamer son sacrifice (17th)
from: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Smith-Lesouëf Japonais 177 (1)
Paris, BnF
Interior of a temple with an idol which has horns and faces on its chest. Also includes torches and lamps. Includes a scene of sacrifice, bones or skeleton, knife, and European soldiers. (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 82
John Carter Brown Library
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
Sacrifice of Noah (1649)
from: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Nazionale; Pio; volume 8F.PIO
Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
Shepherd sacrificing Ram
from: Book of Meshal Ha-Kadmoni (from Germany)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107), fol. 24
Elijah's Sacrifice (1863)
Bury Art Museum
a Jewish priest and high priest preparing to offer a sacrifice (1785)
from: Dandré-Bardon, Michel François, Costume des anciens peuples, a l'usage des artistes / par M. Dandré Bardon ; contenant les usages religieux, civils, domestiques & militaires des Grecs, des Romains, des Israélites & des Hébreux, des Egyptiens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Amazones, des Parthes, des Daces, des Sarmates & autres peuples tant orientaux qu'occidentaux, Paris, A. Jombert, 1784-1786, vol. 3
The Women Sacrificing an Ass to Priapus (1553)
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Sacrifice of Isaac (sec. XIII-XIV)
Torri in Sabina, S. Maria in Vescovio
Abraham's Sacrifice (1600?-1650?)
from: Mîr Hwând, Rawzat al-safâ (Le lieu de repos des Purs) [Suppl. Persan 1567, fol. 50v]
BNF
Samson pulling down the house at Gaza (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 35v
British Museum, London
The god Moloch with an infant in his arms as a sacrifice, (1738)
from: ohann Lund:
University of Heidelberg
The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(1627)
from: Matthäus Rader, Bavaria Sancta, vol. III, 1627, p. 173
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
Aeneas finds a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno [1530]
from: Vergil, Aeneid (Limoges, France)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 1604-1855)
The Adoration of the Lamb (1432)
from: The Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
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 Sacrifice of Isaac (1692)
from: Ze'enah u-Re'enah
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, A. Hebr. 106, fol. 15v
The sacrifice of the Feast of Tabernacles (1746)
from: Histoire universelle, depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu’à présent, Volume 7, published Amsterdam: Arkstée et Merkus, 1742-1782.
Lowcountry Digital Library, College of Charleston Libraries
The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th-18th)
from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art
Private Collection, Lima, Perú
