Editor: Dennj Solera – Image Gallery

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec 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: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersIdolatryMexico

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

Wohlgemuth, Micheal [Wolgemut]

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 22v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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 IsaacAllianceAnimal Sacrifice EngravingsFireHuman SacrificeRam

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

[Urbinate]

Atilius Regulus Forced in the Barrel [1530 - 1540]

Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Rome

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPolitical 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

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

Hollar, Václav

Four Classical Figures (Pagan Sacrifice) (1638)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice DrawingPagan Sacrifice

Leu, Thomas de

Abel Sacrifice (1600)

from: De l'eloquence françoise, Edition nouelle, reueue & augme[n]tee, Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1600

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentEngravingsFireFrontispiece

Anonymous / Unknown

Ritual Feast with Human Linbs offered to a God [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 73r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

[Correggio], Allegri, Antonio

Sacrifice with Vesta (1518 - 1519)

Camera di San Paolo, Parma

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice FrescosItaly

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Mars and Rhea Silvia [1617]

Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePaintings

[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

Altomonte, Martino

Joachim's Sacrifice (18^th Century)

Staedel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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

Keywords: FireHistory of the JewsJoachim and AnnePaintings

[Pinturicchio], Bernardino di Betto (and workshop)

Sacrifice to Mercury (1502 - 1507)

Cathedral, Biblioteca Piccolomini, Siena

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice FrescosItalySacrificial Lamb

Picart, Bernard

Sacrifice which the Floridians make to the Sun (upper) (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

Rentz, Michael Heinrich

The Triumph of Christ´s Sacrifice (1733 - 1735)

from: Rentz, H. Das christliche Jahr, oder, Die Episteln und Evangelien [...], Prag, Labaunischen Erben, 1733 - 1735

The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsFrontispiece

[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

Anonymous / Unknown

Moloch (1652 - 1654)

from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654

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

Keywords: EngravingsFireHuman SacrificesMoloch

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

Duran, Diego de

Aztec Human Sacrifice (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 75r

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Prince Chandrahasa and a Goddess (1598)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

The Aztec day sign tecpatl (flint) [1501 - 1600]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

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

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

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

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Ritual Sacrifice to an Aztec God (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: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersMexico

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

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

David, Jacques-Louis

Andromache Mourning Hector (1783)

Museée du Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

[Augsburg influenced by Hans Burgkmair]

Abraham and Isaac Holding Objects Alluding to the Sacrifice [1510]

Cathedral, St. Gertrud Chapel, altar, Augsburg

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, Old TestamentChurch HistorySacrificial ObjectsSaints

Dente, Marco

Sacrifice to Bacchus [1501 - 1525]

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice FireWoodcut

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Human Sacrifice (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

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 4 (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

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

Griffiths, Moses

The Wicker Man of the Druids Crop (18^th Century)

from: Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales, London, H.D. Symonds, 1781

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

Rode, Bernhard

An Augur Questions the Gods for Numa Pompilius (1768 - 1769)

from: Wikimedia

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesEngravings

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 3 (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

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

Bos, Cornelis; Lombard, Lambert

Sacrifice to Priapus [1537 - 1555]

Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Den Haag

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice Engravings

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 11 (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. 18

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

[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

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 5 (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 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

Vos, Simon de

Death Decius Mus (1641)

The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

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

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Different Sacrifices in front of a Dirty Pyramid of Blood [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 87r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireMexico

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

Chandrahasa Sacrifice, made by Qabil (1598)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: BloodFireHinduHuman SacrificesIndia

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 9 (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. 13

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

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 Human Sacrifice [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 70r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Master IO.FF.

Iphigenia at the Altar [1500]

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksCoins and MedalsFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigenia

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

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Consacration of Decius Mus (1616 - 1617)

Prince of Liechtenstein's Collections, Wien

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice PaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

Duran, Diego de

Transport of the Sacrificial Stone (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 189v

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

Keywords: AztecsMexico

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

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

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

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

[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

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

Le Brun, Charles

The Sacrifice of Polixena (1647)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksPaintingsPolyxenaPriam of TroyWarWomen

[Italian]

Sacrifice to Minerva (16^th Century)

from: [Pliny the Elder], Gaius Plinius Secundus. Naturalis Historia, n. p., n. p., 16c., book XXXVI, n. p.

Public Library, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesCapital LetterItaly

Costa, Lorenzo

Giovanni II Bentivoglio and His Family (1488)

Chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore, Cappella Bentivolgio, Bologna

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesVirgin Mary

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

Ibrâhîm [Abraham] Sacrifice of his Son Ismâ'îl (1577)

Public Library, Spencer Collection, Persian, ms. 1, 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: Abraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentHuman SacrificesIslamic Sacrifice

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

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

Pencz, Georg

Tobiolus makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice, from The Story of Tobias (1543)

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: Bible, Old TestamentFireWomen

[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

The Sentinel in the Employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to Sacrifice his Son to the Ghost of the Shah’s Soul [1560]

from: Tales of a Parrot, [manuscript], [1560]

The Cleveland Museum of Arts, Cleveland

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIslamic Sacrifice

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

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Cain and Abel Sacrifices (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 9v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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 CainAnimal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentEngravingsFire

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

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Death Decius Mus (1617)

Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Mictlāntēcutli God with Sacrificial Knife [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia, c. 18r

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

[Romano], Pippi, Giulio

Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]

Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFrescosPolitical Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham sacrificing his Son Ishmael and Abraham cast into Fire by Nimrod (1583)

from: ms. Zubdat-al Tawarikh

Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istambul

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 relations

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

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Martyrdom of Saint Simon the Apostle (1493)

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

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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

Keywords: Bible, Acts of the ApostlesBible, New TestamentEngravingsIdolatry

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

[Romano], Pippi, Giulio

Sacrifice of an Ox (1527 - 1528)

Palazzo Te, Camera dei venti, Mantua

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireFrescosItaly

[Fontainebleau School]

The Torture of Atilius Regulus [1542 - 1543]

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansEngravingsPolitical Sacrifice

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 13 (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. 27

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

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

Anonymous / Unknown

A Man Burnt Alive during a Sacrifice (1572)

from: Codex Cozcatzin, c. 26r

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman 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

Duchetti, Claudio

Frieze of Sacrificial Instruments (1580 - 1585)

from: Lafréry, Antoine. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae [...], Roma, n. p., 1553, A 128

University of Chicago Library, Chicago

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesEngravingsSacrificial Objects

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

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

Duran, Diego de

Sacrfice and Revenge among the Aztecs (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 70r

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

[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

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

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

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

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

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 6 (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. 6

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints