Editor: Dennj Solera – Image Gallery

Anonymous / Unknown

Tecpatl [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia, c. 18r

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Poussin, Nicolas

The Sacrifice of Noah (1620 - 1665)

National Trust, Tatton Park, Knutsford

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentHistory of the JewsNoahPaintings

Anonymous / Unknown

Snake Sacrifice [1690]

from: Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India

Henri Vever Collection, Freer|Sackler gallery at the Smithsonian Institution

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireHinduIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Tecpatl [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Lafréri, Antoine

Ancient Ritual Sacrifice (1553)

from: Lafréry, Antoine. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae [...], Roma, n. p., 1553, A 110

University of Chicago Library, Chicago

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice EngravingsFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Aesculapius and Two Figures making Sacrifice to Nature (1634)

from: Nardi, G. Lactis physica analysis, n. p., n. p., 1634

The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesFrontispiece

[Cavaliere d'Arpino], Cesari, Giuseppe

Fight between Horatii and Curiatii (1612 - 1613)

Musei capitolini, Sala degli Orazi, Rome

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFrescosPolitical Sacrifice

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

Sacrifice of Noah [1508 - 1510]

Sistine Chapel, vault, Vatican

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentFrescosNoahRome

Anonymous / Unknown

The Destruction of Daksha's Sacrifice [1598 - 1600]

from: Razmnama

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Ritual Sacrifice during a Fight [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 18r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Duran, Diego de

Human Sacrifice for the Toci Goddess (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 181r

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

[Delhi or Hyderabad school]

A Ruler Performing Yajna (Fire Ritual) (1801 - 1900)

Islamic & Indian Paintings, The Dexter Collection Part II, London

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaPolitical Sacrifice

Scultori, Adamo

Sacrifice of a Pig [1547 - 1587]

RISD Museum, Providence

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztecs offer Blood to their Principal God [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 88r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

An Aztec God in front a Table with Human Body [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

James Cook, English Navigator, witnessing Human Sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) 1773ca. [1773]

from: Cook, James. Voyages, [Woodbridgen?], [Smith?], 1815

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesNative AmericansPagan Sacrifice

Steen, Jan

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1671)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice FireIphigeniaPaintings

Picart, Bernard

Zoroastrian Priest Makes a Sacrifice (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: EngravingsPriesthoodZoroastrians

[Veneziano, Agostino]

Sacrifice to Priapus (16^th Century)

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (B.XIV.207.258)

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesEngravings

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham and the Binding of Ishmael (17^th Century)

Haft Tanan (Seven Tombs) Mausoleum, Shiraz

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 TestamentChristian-Islamic relationsFrescosJewish Sacrifice

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice by Behaeding (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 86r, Rome

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Humans Sacrificed in the Fire and on the Pyramid [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 40r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman sacrificeMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Human Sacrifice in front of a God (1530 - 1554)

from: Codex Tudela

Museo de América, Madrid

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

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 4 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 4

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 3 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 30

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Anonymous / Unknown

Atilius Regulus in the Spiked Barrel (17^th Century)

Museo Civico, Feltre

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

[Romano], Pippi, Giulio

Sacrifice to Jupiter [1526 - 1550]

Sotheby's, Ellesmere Sale (5 December 1972), London

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice DrawingFire

Duran, Diego de

Two Aztec do Sacrfice offering Incense and cutting the Body (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 248v

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Martyrdom of Judas Thaddeus (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 107v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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

Keywords: Bible, Acts of the ApostlesBible, New TestamentEngravingsIdolatry

Botticelli, Sandro

The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron (1481 - 1482)

Sistine Chapel, Wall, Vatican

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

Keywords: Anti-Pagan SacrificesBible, Old TestamentFrescosMosesPagan Sacrifice

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec sacrificing an Heart (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Dürer, Albrecht

Rejection of Joachim's Sacrifice (1504)

Museum of Art, Cleveland

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentEngravingsJoachimTemples

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztecs offer Incense and Dirty Paper of Blood [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 74r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireMexico

Duran, Diego de

Aztec Human Sacrifice on the Altar (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 238r

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Master of James IV of Scotland

Jephte Sacrifices his Daughter [1500]

Musée Condé, Chantilly, cod. 139, fol. 7r

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentJephthah

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 2 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 2

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifices for the Dead [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 72r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1524 - 1546)

Casa Buonarroti, Florence

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, Old TestamentDrawingItaly

Zainer, Johann

Neoptolemus Sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's Tomb (1473)

from: Boccaccio, G. De mulieribus claris, translator Heinrich Steinhöwel, Ulm, Johannes Zainer, [1474], n. p.

Penn Library, Wolverhampton

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksPolyxena

Anonymous / Unknown

A Man Sacrificed on an Aztec Pyramid [1501 - 1525]

from: Codex Borbonicus

Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Dalzel, Archibad

Victims for Sacrifice (1793)

from: Dalzel, Archibad. The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793

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

Keywords: AfricaHuman SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

Maderno, Carlo

Saint Cecilia (1600)

Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Altar, Rome

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

Keywords: MartyrdomRomeSaintsSculptureWomen Martyrs

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Sacrifice in front of a Pyramid (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, IX

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersMexico

Lens, Cornelis

Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)

The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

Duran, Diego de

Aztec Temple with Hung Skulls (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 232v

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Picart, Bernard

Ancient Nordic Sami People Sacrifice and Pagan Religious Feast (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: EngravingsPagan Sacrifice

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 15 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 30

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Duran, Diego de

Human Sacrifice in front of an Aztec Pyramid (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 280v

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireMexicoWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Goods for the Sacrifice during Gacitocoztli Feast [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 32r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

The Loyall Sacrifice (1648) (1760 - 1799)

The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

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

Keywords: EnglandEnglish Civil WarFrontispiecePolitical Sacrifice

de Sahagún, Bernardino

An Aztec praying God (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, VI

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersFireMexico

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 1 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 21

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice in front of a Pyramid [1562]

from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis

Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Picart, Bernard

Le grand sacrifice des Canadiens à Quitchi-Manitou ou le Grand Esprit (1723)

from: Picart, Bernard. Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde: représentées par des figures, deel III. Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1723-1743

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Algonquian peoplesCanadaFireGitche ManitouNative Americans

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 5 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 5

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

[Italian]

Persons Bringing Sacrifices to Hercules [1526 - 1550]

British Museum (Dep. of Prints and Drawings), London

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksEngravings

[In the manner of Primaticcio]

Sacrifice to Priapus (1540 - 1550)

British Museum (Dep. of Prints and Drawings), London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesEngravings

Beccafumi, Domenico

Saint Paul Enthroned [1515]

Opera della Misericordia, Siena

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

Keywords: MartyrdomPaintingsProtomartyrsSacrificial ObjectsSaint Paul

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztecs do Penance, cutting their Ears and Tongues [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 79r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Pittoni, Giambattista il Giovane

The Sacrifice of Polixena at the Tomb of Achilles [1735]

The Walter Art Museum, Baltimore

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPaintingsPolyxena

Mantegna, Andrea

Molorchos making a Sacrifice to Hercules (1506)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice DrawingFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of an Aztec [1562]

from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis

Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Maffezzoli, Giovanni

The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]

Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPolitical SacrificeWoodcut

Anonymous / Unknown

Abel Sacrifice (1618)

from: Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès, Paris, Abel Langelier, 1618

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentEngravingsFireFrontispiece

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Pyramid with Human Blood on the Steps [1562]

from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis

Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Gods on a Pyramid afther a Sacrifice [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 91r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Rite in front an Idol (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersFireMexico

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Human Sacrifice (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, I

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Mantegna, Andrea

Stories of Saint James (1447 - 1456)

Chiesa degli Eremitani, Cappella Olivetari, Padova

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesFire

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Moctezuma makes a Human Sacrifice to have a Prediction (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, XII

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

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

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersMexico

Picart, Bernard

Mexican Sacrifice to the God of Hunting (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: EngravingsNative Americans

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 12 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 24

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Rosa, Attilio

The Death of Atilius Regulus (1662)

Galleria Trincia, Rome

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansEngravingsPolitical Sacrifice

Picart, Bernard

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksEngravingsFirstbornsIphigeniaWomen

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Death Decius Mus (1617)

Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

Kircher, Athanasius

Noah offering a sacrifice to God after the Flood (1675)

from: Athanasius Kircher, Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta, Amsterdam 1683, p. 166

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismBible, GenesisFireNoahRam

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Ritual with Human Linbs [1501 - 1525]

from: Codex Borbonicus

Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Lund, Johann

The Idol Moloch with Seven Chambers or Chapels (1711)

from: Lund, Johann. Die Alten Jüdischen Heiligthümer, Hamburg, Fickweiler, 1711

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsIdolatryMolochPagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 6 (16^th Century)

from: ms. Laud Misc. 678

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

De Jode, Gerard

The Sacrifice of Abel (1576)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

Keywords: Abel and CainBible, Old TestamentEngravingsFire

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 80r, Rome

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Snake Sacrifice of Jamanjeya (1605)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireHinduIndia

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice with Harrows (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 88r, Rome

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 2 (1556)

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Heretic Jewish at the Stake (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 230v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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

Keywords: EngravingsFireHeresyJewish Studies

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 10 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 16

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints