Editor: Dennj Solera – Image Gallery

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Human Sacrifice [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

[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

[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

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

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

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

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Human Sacrifice [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Giani, Felice

Ancient Sacrifice and Head of a Satyr (?^th Century)

National Gallery of Art, Washington

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 1 [1501 - 1550]

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 72 (3)

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

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

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

[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

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

Zuccari, Taddeo

Sacrifice to Hermes (1562 - 1566)

Villa Farnese, Camera dell'aurora, Caprarola

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAncient SacrificesFrescos

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)

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

[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

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

Tovar, Juan de

An Aztec Noble’s Sacrifice for his Country [1585]

from: Codex Ramírez or Tovar - Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias

John Carter Brown Library

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexico

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

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

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

[Romano], Pippi, Giulio

Sacrifice to Jupiter [1501 - 1525]

Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice Drawing

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

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

Picart, Bernard

The Great Sacrifice of the Canadians Indians (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 AmericansNorth AmericaPagan Sacrifice

Beaufort, Jacques-Antoine

The Oath of Brutus (1771)

Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansBloodOathsPaintingsPolitical Sacrifice

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 8 (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. 11

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

[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

Anonymous / Unknown

Scenes from Daily Life of the Aztecs (1553)

from: Mendoza Codex

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesNative Americans

[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

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

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

[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

Anonymous / Unknown

A Symbolf of the Sacrifices to an Aztec God (demon) [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 12r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

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

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

[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

[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

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 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

[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

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

[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 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)

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 14 (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. 29

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

[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

Duran, Diego de

Human Sacrifice on Pyramids with Aztec Gods (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 131r

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

De Jode, Gerard

Cain murdering 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 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

[Italian]

Atilius Regulus Leave (18^th Century)

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe (scatola 10), Venice

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansDrawingPolitical Sacrifice

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

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

Vecelio, Tiziano

Jacopo Pesaro Being Presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter [1511 - 1513]

Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansChurch HistoryItalyPaintingsRome

[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