Keyword: Fire – Image Gallery
Brahmin undergoing the test of fire after prolonged penance and yoga practices; Yogi dragging heavy iron chains; and a man tied to a tree who has chosen to embrace death (1670)
from: Abraham Rogerius, Le Théâtre de l’idolatrie ou la porte ouverte, Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, p. 252
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1899)
London, Wellcome Collection
Abel Sacrifice (1600)
from: De l'eloquence françoise, Edition nouelle, reueue & augme[n]tee, Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1600
A Suttee (1858)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Sacrifice of a Pig [1547 - 1587]
RISD Museum, Providence
Moloch (1652 - 1654)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654
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
Iaponum in igne alacritas (1640)
from: Imago primi saeculi (Omata-Rappo, Des Indes lointaines aux scènes des collèges: les reflets des martyrs de la mission japonaise en Europe (XVI -XVIII siècle) (2016), fig 97
Hindoo Woman throwing herself (19th century?)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Molorchos making a Sacrifice to Hercules (1506)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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
Idolatres (1685)
from: Allain Manesson Mallet, Description de l'Univers, , contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes générals et particulières de la géographie ancienne et modern. Vol.: De l'Asie.
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
Hindu Princess Committing Suttee (17th century)
Wellcome Library, London
A Jewish priest and high priest preparing to offer a sacrifice (1785)
from: Dandré-Bardon, Michel François, Costume des anciens peuples, a l'usage des artistes / par M. Dandré Bardon ; contenant les usages religieux, civils, domestiques & militaires des Grecs, des Romains, des Israélites & des Hébreux, des Egyptiens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Amazones, des Parthes, des Daces, des Sarmates & autres peuples tant orientaux qu'occidentaux, Paris, A. Jombert, 1784-1786, vol. 3
Cain killing Abel, besides Cain and Abel standing, holding their sacrifices [1420]
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Prague, Národní Muzeum, III.B.10, fol. 22r
Národní Muzeum, Prague
Joachim's Sacrifice (18th Century)
Staedel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Pater Franciscus Pachecus Lusitanus (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Heilige Himmelsfeuer (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol 2, p. 382, Tafel 226 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 9,24
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 66 / emanuscripta
The sacrifice to Iphigenia (1553)
Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
Elijah and the Priests of Baal (1525-1530)
from: Scenes for a 'Biblia Pauperum' published by Doen Pietersz
British Museum, London
Sacrifice of an Ox (1527 - 1528)
Palazzo Te, Camera dei venti, Mantua
Pater Hieronymus de Angelis Siculus (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
The Blood of the Redeemer (1460 - 1465)
National Gallery, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1493)
from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 22v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich
Aztec Sacrifice to thank Gods for the Vistory (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 138r
Suttee Pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat (19th century)
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Favorite Wife of Sevajee (1851)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Le grand sacrifice des Canadiens à Quitchi-Manitou ou le Grand Esprit (1723)
from: Picart, Bernard. Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde: représentées par des figures, deel III. Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1723-1743
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Beasts and the birds sacrificed (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nur,emberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 18r
British Museum, London
(1729)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bramenes cum mortuus est (1598)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 92
Woman Going to Burn (1811)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The Athenians sacrifice to the newborn Minerva (1629)
from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 510
Warburg Institute
The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1675)
Royal Collection Trust
Japanese mendicants, lepers, muck-eaters, acts of self-immolation, the bathing of “Brahmins and fakirs,” Mexican human sacrifice and deities, and a Turkish dervish. (1682)
from: Simon de Vries (ca. 1580–1629), Curieuse Aenmerckingen der byzondereste Oost en West Indische… dingen (Curious Remarks on the most exceptional East and West Indian… matters), vol. 3 (Utrecht: Johannes Ribbius, 1682)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sacrifice to Bacchus [1501 - 1525]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1597)
Augsburg, Dom
A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Sacrifice to Jupiter [1526 - 1550]
Sotheby's, Ellesmere Sale (5 December 1972), London
Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18th Century)
Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer
Satī. The bride immolates herself on the funeral pyre (1657)
from: Isfahan, Iran
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Noah offering a sacrifice to God after the Flood (1675)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta, Amsterdam 1683, p. 166
A jewish Sacrifice (P. Cunaeus, La république des Hébreux) (1705)
from: Title page of: P. Cunaeus, La république des Hébreux. Où il est traité au long & à fond de la Sacrificature Mosaïque, des divers Sacrifices de l' Ancienne Loi, & des Cérémonies avec lesquelles lis étoient offerts, Amsterdam, Mortier, 1705
Tipus sacrificiorum que in maniter indi faciebant in novo indiarum orbe precipue in Mexico (1579)
from: D. Valadés, Rhetorica christiana: ad concionandi et orandi usum accommodata, utriusque facultatis exemplis suo loco insertis, quae quidem, ex indorum maxime deprompta sunt historiis, unde praeter doctrinam, summa quoque delectatio comparabitur, Pietro Giacomo Petrucci, Perugia 1579, p. 172
A Gentoo Woman Burning herself (1768)
from: Cavendish Drake, E. A, Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, London, J. Cooke, 1768
Stories of Saint James (1447 - 1456)
Chiesa degli Eremitani, Cappella Olivetari, Padova
Sacrifice of pure Animals (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, nach S. 378, Tafel 223 (ZB III ZZ 55) Illustriert Lev 1,2-3
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 63 / emanuscripta
Different Sacrifices in front of a Dirty Pyramid of Blood [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 87r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
The Sacrifice of Noah (1675)
from: Imagines Veteris Ac Novi Testamenti A Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Nazionale; Pio; volume 8F.PIO
In the palace, Rāvaṇa and his remaining brothers and sons are bowed down by grief and Rāvaṇa wonders how he can ever be victorious in this conflict, when so many demon champions have been slain. Another son, Indrajit, boasts that he will overcome Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa and sets out in his chariot, surrounded by other demons on elephants, horses and in chariots. In a separate chamber (the text actually says on the battlefield), he prepares offerings, seizing a young black goat by the neck, to the god of Fire in order to conjure up his most magical weapons and to make himself invisible. (ca 1653)
from: Ramayana [ms Add. 15297(1), fol. 97]
British Library, London [from Udaipur]
Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow (19th century)
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Gundisalvus fusai? Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Four priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice to Agni [1800-1900]
London, Wellcome Collection
Sati (suttee): a woman immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist. (1800-1899)
from: India
London, Wellcome Collection
Rama accompanied by a golden statue of Sita performs the Ashwamehda Yajna. The sage Valmiki participates. They sit before a ritual Yajna fire. [1790]
from: folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
Sotheby's
Noah, his family and the animals leave the ark and offer sacrifice to God (1500)
from: Metrical Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus [Ms Add. 40724, fol. 23]
British Library, London
Himmelfeuer (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 384, Tafel 227 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 10,2
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 67 / emanuscripta
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
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1671)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sacrificio di Ietro
Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini
The sacrifice of Elijah (1519-1524)
Siena Cathedral
An Aztec praying God (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, VI
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
Petrus Sampo Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)
Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)
Yamata no Orochi venant réclamer son sacrifice (17th)
from: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Smith-Lesouëf Japonais 177 (1)
Paris, BnF
Funerailles des Femmes Benjanoises (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Femmes Benjanoises brulees (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Caino e Abele [1610]
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Sacrifice in Egypt (1776 -1825)
Herzog August Bibliothek
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1274)
from: Psalterium Parisiense, Psautier dit de saint Louis (France)
Paris, BnF, Latin 10525, fol. 10
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
Veuve indouve hallant (1825)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Cain killing Abel, besides Cain and Abel sacrificing (1466)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Xylogr. 37, fol. 33r (Utrecht)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Sacrifice of Noah (17th Century)
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
A King Sacrificing (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Vedova di un indiano (1845)
from: Atlante Illustrato, Florence, 1845
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Native Americans [?] sacrifice children on an altar. Includes priests with knives who place the infants on a pyre. (1662)
from: Schultze, Gottfried, De nieuwe bereysde wereldt, Iohannes Tongerloo, La Hague, 1662, frontespiece
The John Carter Brown Library
Persons bringing sacrifices to Hercules (1629)
from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 494.
The Warburg Institute, London
The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282
Scene of a sacrifice [1545]
Museo Capodimonte, Napoli
Saxons worshipping their gods; the deities on a temple structure on l, priests dressed as bishops on r, smoke rising from sacrifices at centre. (1597)
from: Illustration to Peter Albinus, 'Außzug der Eltisten und fürnembsten Historien des uralten streitbarn und beruffenen Volcks der Sachssen ...', (Dresden) 1597. 1597 Hand-coloured etching and letterpress
The British Museum, London
Michael Xumpo Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1218)
from: Psalter of Queen Ingeborg (Paris)
Chantilly, Musee Conde, Ms.9, folio 11r
Cain and Abel (1673)
from: D. Teniers, Theatrum pictorium: in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineatae, eiusque curâ in aes incisae picturae, archetipae italicae, quas ipse ser.mus archidux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit, Antuerpiae, Sumptibus viduae Abrahami Teniers, ubi venales extant, 1673, n. 178
Woman Thown into the Pyre (1563)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 99
A scene of Sati ritual Souryabha. Femme duchadja Jasingha se brulant. On represente icy la maniere en laquelle se brusla une femme de Radja Jasing appellée en la langue Indienne - Souryabha, qui veut dire lumiere du soleil, elle se brusla sans faire paroistre acucune crainte du feu ni de la mort. (1678-1686)
from: Nicolo Manucci, Histoire de l'Inde depuis Tamerlank jusquà Orangzeb [ms Libro Rosso, fol. 50v]
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris