Editor: Marco Albertoni – Image Gallery

The Sacrifice of Isaac (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Le Martyre de Sainct Andre (1611)
from: L. Richeome, La Peinture spirituelle ou l'Art d'admirer aimer et louer Dieu en toutes ses oeuvres, et tirer de toutes profit saluter, Lyonne, Pierre Rigaud, 1611, p. 2

Skinned Martyrs (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 129

Caridad (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Samson's Revenge [1730 - 1740]
Österreichisches Barockmuseum, Wien

Martyrs Stabbed and Dismembered (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 117

Sacrifice of Isaac (1630)
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

A Topac Amaro le Cortan la Caveza en el Cuzco (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Levitici, Car. XIV, v. 4-7, Leprosorum Purgatio (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXII

Al Cementerio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Numer., Cap. XV, v. 4-6-9, Sacrificium cibarium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome quatrieme, tab. CCCVI

A bull offered in sacrifice to Jupiter (16th Century)
Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome

The sacrifice of Noah [1725 - 1735]
Galleria dei dipinti antichi, Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena

Sacrum pingue dabo et macrum sacrificabo (typographical mark) (1580)
from: Philippe de Commynes, Les memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Argenton, sur les principaux faicts & gestes de Louis onziesme & de Charles huictiesme son filz roys de France, Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1580

Martyrs Tortured and Hung by the Thumbs and a Foot (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 17

Carretadas al cementerio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Genesis, Cap. XV, v. 9-11, Sacrificium foederale (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome premier, tab. XXXIII

Mandato Domini Venit Angelus ad Gedeonem (1643)
from: Claes Jansz Visscher; Nicolaus Johannis Piscator, Theatrum Biblicum: Hoc est historiæ sacræ Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis æneis expressæ, [Amsterdam] C.J. Visscher, 1643

¡Qué valor! (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Sacrifice of propitiation (1601)
from: , engraved illustration from Louis Richeome, Les tableaux sacrez (Paris, Sonnius: 1601), pag. 318

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1527 - 1529]
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden ; Museo del Prado, Madrid ; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Sacrifice of Noah [1580 - 1610]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1603)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Stove plate with the sacrifice of Isaac (1550 - 1600)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Castigo, justicia, Sancay, Inquisición. (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 302].

No se puede saber por qué (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Covenant between Abraham and God (1700)
from: Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum Veteris Testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera, Sumptibus atque expensis, [Antwerp], Gerardi de Iode 1579
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

No se puede mirar (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Allegory of the Catholic Faith (picture made when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic) [1670 - 1672]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Iud., cap. VI, v. 19-20-21, Sacrificium Gedeonis (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome quatrieme, tab. CCLXXIV

Ancient Tools of Torture (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 53

Killing of the Prophets of Baal [1519 - 1524]
Siena Cathedral

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1755)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bound and Tortured Martyrs (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 155

The Sacrifice of Manoah (1640 - 1650)
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

The sacrifice of a ram (1575)
from: Antoine Lafréry, Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Roma 1575 ca.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Martyrs Beaten and Tortured in Various Ways (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 61

Samson Destroying the Temple [1550 - 1560]
National Gallery of Arts, Washington DC

Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1640 - 1642]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Martyrdom of Saint Pelayo from Cordova (19-20th Century)
Catedral de la Encarnación, Malaga (Spain)

Bien te se está (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

The Sacrifice of Isaac (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Martyrs Tortured and Dismembered (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 91

Martyrs Being Burnt in Various Ways (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 99

Sacrifice of Isaac [1650 - 1651]
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1655)
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Levitici, Cap. XVII, v. 7 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXVII

Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, à Diana (cerva eius in locum substituta) surripitur (1606)
from: Antonio Tempesta, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum libri quindicem aeneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta Fiorentino incisi, et in pictorum antiquitatisque studiosorum gratiam nunc primum exquisitissimis sumptibus a Petro de Iode anteuerpiano in lucem editi, vol. 12, Anversa 1606, plate 112

Diruit aram, lucumq., Baal indeq. construit aram Domino, et holocaustum sacrificat [1561]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Así sucedió (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Ancient Tools of Torture, 2 (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 67

The Story of Samson [1525 - 1530]
Kunstmuseum, Basel

The Sacrifice of Polixena (1647)
Metropolitan Museum, New York

Ancient Tools of Torture, 3 (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 75

Jeroboam Offering Sacrifice for the Idols (1752)
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Sacrifice of Isaac [1625 - 1650]
Museo d'arte di Palazzo Gavotti, Savona

Samson's Sacrifice [1470 - 1475]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Genesis, Cap. IV, v. 4-5, Cain Ira fervens, Invidia pallens (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome premier, tab. LXXVI

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1598)
Piasecka-Johnson Collection, Princeton

Victima, per Manuen domino mactatur optima: Uxor Samsonem quod paritura foret (1579)
from: Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum Veteris Testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera, Sumptibus atque expensis, [Antwerp], Gerardi de Iode 1579
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Exactis duobus mensibus reversa est Virgo ad Patrem suum et fecit ei secundum votum suum. Iud. Cap. II. (1579)
from: Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum Veteris Testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera, Sumptibus atque expensis, [Antwerp], Gerardi de Iode, 1579
Bibliothèque National de France

I. Regum XVIII, Quam frustra Baalita suis clamoribus optat [1712]
from: C. Wiegel, Historiae celebriores veteris testamenti iconibus representatae, et ad excitandas bonas meditationes selectis epigrammatibus exornatae in lucem datae a Christophoro Weigelio, Noribergae, 1712, n. p.

Gen. VIII, Gratus grata Deo sua fert Holocausta Noachus [1712]
from: C. Wiegel, Historiae celebriores veteris testamenti iconibus representatae, et ad excitandas bonas meditationes selectis epigrammatibus exornatae in lucem datae a Christophoro Weigelio, Noribergae, 1712, n. p.

Sacrificio di Ifigenia [1760]
Schlossmuseum, Weimar

Tortured Martyrs in Different Ways, 3 (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 121

Se aprovechan (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

En pater innocuum puerum deducit ad aram en promptus charum est ense ferire caput [1567]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1551)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Luc. 1, Zacharias adolet thus [1712]
from: C. Wiegel, Historiae celebriores veteris testamenti iconibus representatae, et ad excitandas bonas meditationes selectis epigrammatibus exornatae in lucem datae a Christophoro Weigelio, Noribergae, 1712, n. p.

Maltratamiento de los corregidores y padres españoles a los indios, indias pobres. (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° (fol. 922).

Martyrs Torn Apart by Beasts (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 143

Iud., cap. XVI, v. 29.30, Ultima Roboris Samsonici (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome quatrieme, tab. CCCLXXXVII

Allegory of Triumph and Sacrifice [1520]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Levitici, Cap. XIV, v. 10, Sacrificio Leprosi Purgatorium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXIII

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1590 - 1637]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Tortured Martyrs in Different Ways, 2 (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 119

Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1690 - 1700]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Curarlos, y á otra (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Por una navaja (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Roundel with Martyrdom of Saint Jacobus Intercisus [1520]
The Met Cloisters, New York

The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th Century)
Private Collection

Martyrs Thrown into the Ravine or into the Fire (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 149

Ancient Sacrifice (1535 - 1539)
Galerie François-Ier, château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau

No hay remedio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1695 - 1696]
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Samson Self-Sacrifice (1570)
from: Biblia, Das ist Die gantze Heylige Schrifft Teutsch Mart. Luth., Sampt einem Register und schoenen Figuren, Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Wolffen und David Zephelij, Erben, 1570, fol. 143v

Exodi, Cap. XXXII, v. 20 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXX

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1554 - 1555]
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

Tortured Martyrs in Different Ways (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 77

Principibus Samson fatum crudele parabat, Dum basin frangit Utramque manu (1643)
from: Claes Jansz Visscher; Nicolaus Johannis Piscator, Theatrum Biblicum: Hoc est historiæ sacræ Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis æneis expressæ, [Amsterdam] C.J. Visscher, 1643

Numer., Cap. V, v. 17, 26-28 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXCIII

Asservere Dei cultum miracula missa, Heliae manibus turba prophana cadit (1585)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Blinded and Tortured Martyrs (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 97

The suicide of Themistocles [1675 - 1700]
Palazzo Reale, Turin

Abel [1601]
from: L. Richeome, Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du très-auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie, Paris, Sonnius, 1601, p. 48

Ways in which Martyrs were Drowned, 2 (1591)
from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 153

Genesis, Cap. XXII, v. 13, Abrahamus sacrificans (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome premier, tab. LXXXIII

Kusi Yupanqui (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.