Keyword: Bible, Old Testament – Image Gallery

Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood (1700-1760)
Wellcome Collection, London

Sacrifice of Noah [1630 - 1664]
Palazzo Bianco - Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa

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

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

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

Sacrifice of Noah (17th Century)
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Sacrificio di Isacco [1625]
Gallerie Nazionali d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Cain killing Abel (18th Century)
Unknown

I. Regum XIII, Rumpitur Ara [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.

The Philistines cut off Saul's head to offer it to their God (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

The Sacrifice of Elijah (1552-1557)
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1596]
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Levitici, Cap. XXII, v. 22-24, Sacrificia Rejicula (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXXII

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1630 - 1635]
Christophoruskirche, Wiesbaden-Schierstein

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

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

Levitici, Cap. IX, v. 24 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXVI

Elijah and Baal's priests (1545)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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

Sacrificio di Isacco [1625 - 1630]
Museo civico di Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1659)
Private Collection

Offering of the first-born in the Temple (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 26r
British Museum, London

Samson destroys the Temple (Armadi della Sagrestia con Tarsie Lignee) (XVI)
Napoli, Certosa e Museo Nazionale di San Martino

Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac (1523 - 1526)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1635)
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

The sacrifice of Elijah on Mount Carmel [1531]
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli

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

Sacrifice of Noah [1508 - 1510]
Sistine Chapel, vault, Vatican

De kinderen in't dal Topeth, aan den Molech ter verbrandinge overgegeven (1701)
from: Petrus Cunaeus, Willem Goeree (transl.), De Republyk Der Hebreen, of Gemeenebest der Joden, in drie boeken, Amsterdam, 1701, p. 32

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

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

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

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

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1625 - 1626]
Palazzo Brera, Milan

The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th Century)
Private Collection

Levitici, Cap. III, v. 4. 16-17, Renes cum Pinguedine et omento (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXV

Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines (XVII)
Venezia, Museo Correr ( cl.III 1443)

Cain and Abel Sacrifice (1500 - 1515)
Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge

Stove Plate with a Sacrificing King David and the Prophet Gad (16-17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols [1704 - 1744]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Captivos rex Asa boves promissaq. reddit [...] [1589]
Bibliothèque municipale, Bordeaux

Beasts and the birds sacrificed (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nur,emberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 18r
British Museum, London

The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron (1481 - 1482)
Sistine Chapel, Wall, Vatican

Abraham and Isaac Holding Objects Alluding to the Sacrifice [1510]
Cathedral, St. Gertrud Chapel, altar, Augsburg

Sacrificium Achas Regis Idololatrae IIII.Reg.XVI (1539)
from: Aemilius, Georg. Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis epigrammatibus à Georgio Aemylio illustratae, Frankfurt, Christianus Egenolphus, [1539], p. Hiv(verso)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Gen. Cap. XXII, v. 10-13, Aquila liberat Helenam sacrificio (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

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

Levitici, Cap. X, v.2, Igne Peccantes Igne Necantur (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXVII

Priming Flask Made for Prince-Elector August I of Saxony Representing the Sacrifice of Isaac [1575]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Exodi, Cap. XXIX, v. 13-22, Deo ex Ariete Sacra (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCV

Sacrifice of Isaac [1585 - 1650]
Louvre, Paris

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

Samson and Delilah, beyond Samson forces two columns and causes the temple to collapse; (1553)
from: Martinus . Hemskerck. Inventor / Hieronimus. Cock. excud. 1553
The British Museum, London

The Sacrifice of Abel (1576)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Levitici, Cap. I, v. 8. 14, Holocausta ex Adipe et Avibus (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXIV

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.

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1524 - 1546)
Casa Buonarroti, Florence

King David Sacrifices to God and Sees the Angel of Death (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Pagan Sacrifice of King Ahaz (1646)
from: Bibels tresoor, ofte der zielen lusthof, vytgebeelt in figueren, door verscheyden meesters. Ende gesneden, door Christoffel van Sichem, Amsterdam, P. I. Paets, 1646, p. 592
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Sacrifice of the Priests of Baal [1519 - 1524]
Siena Cathedral

The Sacrifice of Manoah [1641]
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Exod. XXXII, Moyses frange datae tabula a numine Legis [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.

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

Cain murdering Abel (1576)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

The Sacrifice of Abraham [1630 - 1635]
Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Städel Museum), Frankfurt

Jephte Sacrifices his Daughter [1500]
Musée Condé, Chantilly, cod. 139, fol. 7r

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

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

Samson's mother seated at centre, her hands folded in her lap, Manoah and his wife at an altar with an angel in flames in background (1590-1595)
from: Mater Sampsonis, from Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti
The British Museum, London

Ibrâhîm [Abraham] Sacrifice of his Son Ismâ'îl (1577)
Public Library, Spencer Collection, Persian, ms. 1, New York

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

Ezech, cap. XL, v. 43, Sacrificia ad clavos et in mensis (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome septieme, tab. DCXL

Exodi, Cap. XXVII, v. 14, Ara Templi II constructa (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome second, tab. CXCIII

The Sacrifice of the Golden Mountoun [1550]
Bibliothèque municipale, Bordeaux

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

(1549)
from: The Story of Samson, Hand-colored engravings (Netherlands)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York

David Sacralized King by Samuel (1647(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Allegory of the Old and New Testaments and the Church triumphing over the Synagogue (1523)
from: Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti
Ferrara, Pinacoteca

Levitici, Cap. XIII, v. 8-28, Lepra (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXVIII

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.

Exodi, Cap. XXVII, v. 4, Ara cum crate (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome second, tab. CXCLII

The Sacrifice of Manoah and His Wife, Parents of Samson (17th Century)
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Samson's Death (1549)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Jeroboam's Sacrifice at Bethel (1656)
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Iefté, Principe del pueblo ysraelitico [...] [1580 - 1583]
Bibliothèque National de France, Paris

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

The Sacrifice of Noah, after the Deluge (1551-1660)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Samson breaking the pillars of the house of the Philistines [1530-1549]
Bologna, Chiesa di San Domenico (coro ligneo)

Sacrifice of Isaac (18th Century)
Private collection

Exodi, Cap. XXVII, v. 1-8, Ara Witfii (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome second, tab. CXCL

Tuta Philistaei secta cervice tyranni [...] [1590]
from: Adriaen Collaert ; Jan Van Der Straet, Encomium musices, Antwerp, Philippe Galle, [1590]

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

Recedentibus aquis diluvii a facie terrae, arca omnia contenta eiicit; Noe autem, ara extructa, Deum immolatione placavit. Gen. VIII [1581]
from: van der Borcht, P. Imagines et figurae Bibliorum, Antwerp, J. Villanus, 1581
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam