Editor: Dennj Solera – Image Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Albertinelli, Mariotto

Cain and Abel Sacrifice (1500 - 1515)

Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge

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

Keywords: Abel and CainBible, Old TestamentFire

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

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

[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

[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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bhagwan

Ladies of Krishna's Harem are Shown the Sacrificial Horse (1598)

from: Razmnama Mughal

Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HinduIndiaWomen

[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

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

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

[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 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

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

[Florentine]

Sacrifice to or by Image of Minerva (1513)

from: Poliziano, A. La Giostra di Giuliano de Medici, Florence, n. p., n. p., 1513, fol. V

Warburg Institute, Hamburg stamp, London

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesEngravingsFireFlorence

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

[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

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

Anonymous / Unknown

ASlave Sacrified in front of his Dead Owner [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 66r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

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

[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

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

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

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

de Sahagún, Bernardino

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

Beatrizet, Nicolas

Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAncient SacrificesCoins and MedalsHuman SacrificesIphigenia

[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

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

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)

[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

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

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

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

[French]

Neoptolemus Sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's Tomb [1500]

from: Anonymous / Unknown. Livre de la destruction de Troye, et la vraye hystoire de Eneas, n. p., n. p., 16c., fol. 169r

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fr. 22554

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPolyxena

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

[Paduan or Milanese]

A Sacrifice to Cupid [1500]

Galleria Estense, Modena

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesCoins and MedalsFire

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tovar, Juan de

Human Sacrifice in front of the King [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)

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman 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

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 Sacrificial Knife [1400 - 1521]

from: Mexico

British Museum, Am,St.399, London

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesKnifeMixtec

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

Dedication of a New Temple to Coatl God (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 170v

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AztecsBloodMexico

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

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

[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

Bourdon, Sébastien

Sacrifice of Noah (1640)

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentHistory of the JewsNoahPaintings

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

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

[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

[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

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

[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

Raimondi, Marcantonio

Saint Cecilia Martyrdom [1520 - 1525]

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XIV.114.107)

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansEngravingsRomeSaintsWomen Martyrs

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

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

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

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

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

[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

[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