Keyword: Fire – Image Gallery
Satī (17th)
from: Manuscript, Iran
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art
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
Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols [1704 - 1744]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Simon Yempo Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Aaron's first offering (1670)
from: La Saincte Bible, Contenant le Vieil and la Nouveau Testament, Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures/Sacra Biblia, nouo et vetere testamento constantia eximiis que sculpturis et imaginibus illustrata, De Limprimerie de Gerard Jollain
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
Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)
London, Wellcome Collection
Burninge of a Banion Woman (1630s)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 123
The Sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham and Isaac approach the place of sacrifice [1370]
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Lat. 511, fol. 22v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
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
Coutume des Sacrifices chez les Angolais (The practice of sacrificing among the Angolans) (1729)
from: Aa, Pieter van der, Galerie agreable du monde, Leiden. Pierre vander Aa, 1729
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Sacrifice of propitiation (1601)
from: , engraved illustration from Louis Richeome, Les tableaux sacrez (Paris, Sonnius: 1601), pag. 318
Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1814)
from: Lester. The Gallery of Nature and Art, 1814
London, Wellcome Collection
The Sacrifice of Abel (1576)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Fatal Sacrifice (18th Century)
Wellcome Collection, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1490 - 1495)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Sacrificial Fire, from the 'Tula Ram' Bhagavata Purana (c. 1720)
from: Western India, Gujarat, Surat
The Cleveland Museum of Art (Gift of John D. Proctor)
People lighting torches from a concave mirror reflecting the sun and worshippers offering their hearts. Emblems of Achilles Bocchius. (1555)
from: Bologna
The British Museum, London
Funerailles des Femmes Benjanoises (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
Petrus Sampo Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
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
Title page of Mizbeah olah, seu de ara exteriore templi secundi exercitationes philologicae (1697)
from: Cramer, Johannes-Jacobus,
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1597)
Augsburg, Dom
Sacrifice of a Pig [1547 - 1587]
RISD Museum, Providence
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
Pater Hieronymus de Angelis Siculus (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Qui fictos virtute Sacra reprende cultus Missus erat, sancte fata futura canit (?th Century)
Wellcome collection, London
Cain and Abel Sacrifices (1493)
from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 9v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich
Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]
from: Razmnāmah by Abhinanda, India (The last volume of the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned in 990 by Akbar)
London, British Library, Or 12076 folio: 90v
Yamata no Orochi venant réclamer son sacrifice (17th)
from: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Smith-Lesouëf Japonais 177 (1)
Paris, BnF
Andromache Mourning Hector (1783)
Museée du Louvre, Paris
A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)
from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The tomb of the weroans – An Algonquian burial house showing bodies on a raised platform and a priest squatting by a fire beneath the platform. (1590)
from: Thomas Hariot, Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, Franckfort am Mayn, Wechel-De Bry, 1590, plate 22
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
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 Widow Burning Herself with the Corpse of the Husband (1820)
from: Shoberl, F. The World in Miniature: Hindoostan, London, Ackerman, 1820s
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Snake Sacrifice [1690]
from: Udaipur, Rajasthan state, Mewar, India
Henri Vever Collection, Freer|Sackler gallery at the Smithsonian Institution
Manner in which they Bury Themselves (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Abraham's Sacrifice (XVII)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
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]
Abbruciamento delle mogli vedove (1740-56)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The Funeral Pile of a Husband (1810)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 32v
British Museum, London
Four priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice to Agni [1800-1900]
London, Wellcome Collection
Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab I. Pictura exhibens sacrificium solis. Tav. II Pictura Indica autographa exhibens holocaustum ignis (1791)
from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791
New York Public Library
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
Manoah and his wife sacrificing (1670)
from: La Saincte Bible, Contenant le Vieil and la Nouveau Testament, Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures/Sacra Biblia, nouo et vetere testamento constantia eximiis que sculpturis et imaginibus illustrata, De Limprimerie de Gerard Jollain
Cain murdering Abel (1576)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sacrifice of Noah (1519-1527)
Albertina, Vienna
Hindoo Woman about to be Buried (1811)
from: Goldsmith, J. Geography on a Popular Plan, London, Richard Phillips, 1811
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Cain killing Abel (18th Century)
Unknown
Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Sacrifice to Jupiter [1526 - 1550]
Sotheby's, Ellesmere Sale (5 December 1972), London
Petrus Onizuca Iappon (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Woman Throwing Herself in the Pyre (1699)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 94
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
Moloch (1652 - 1654)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The Sacrifice of Isaac
from: Ancient mosaic pavement from the 6th century, Beit Alfa Synagogue
Beit Alfa Synagogue, Beit She'an (near to), Israel
Vedova indiana che si abbrucia (1816)
from: Ferrario, G. Il costumo antico e moderno, Florence, c.1816
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Scene of a sacrifice [1545]
Museo Capodimonte, Napoli
Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood (1700-1760)
Wellcome Collection, London
Bramenes cum mortuus est (1598)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 92
Veuve hindoue allant au bucher (1797)
from: Abdul-Kerym, Voyage de l'Inde a la Mekke, ca. 1797
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Woman Committing Sati (17th century)
Harvard Art Museum, Boston (https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/165399)
Burnt offerings in the Temple of Jerusalem from within the Court of the Levites (1660)
from: plate from the 'Restoration' Bible 2 vols., published by John Ogilby, Cambridge, 1660
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Sacrifice of an Ox (1527 - 1528)
Palazzo Te, Camera dei venti, Mantua
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
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
A Suttee (1858)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Elijah and Baal's priests (1545)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Rishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda [Udaipur]
London, British Library, Add. 15295, f. 36
Manuscript cutting of he Sacrifice of a ram by Abraham and Isaac [1500]
from: Italy
V&A Museum, London
Les veuves du Cormandel (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
Pater Franciscus Pachecus Lusitanus (1646)
from: Cardim, F. Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, Roma, Corbelletti, 1646
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna (1726 - 1729)
Musée Magnin, Dijon
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
Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Mucius Scevola (17th Century)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole
Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1899)
London, Wellcome Collection
Sacrifice in Egypt (1776 -1825)
Herzog August Bibliothek
Sacrifice of Birds and Fat (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 380, Tafel 224 (ZB III ZZ 55) Illustriert Lev 1,8-14
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 64 / emanuscripta
Woman Thown into the Pyre (1563)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 99
Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Indian Woman Burning Alive (18th century)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The sacrifice of the horse (asvamedha) by King Yudhisthira [1598 - 1605]
from: Ramznama
Louvre, Paris
Sati Funeral Practice (1611)
from: Johannes Isacius Pontanus, "Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia", Amsterdam, 1611, p. 189
Sacrificio di Ietro
Roma, Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini
The divine messenger (Agnipurusha) rises from the sacrificial fire to bear vessel of celestial food by Nadim (1597- 1605)
from: The Ramayana
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Jephtha sacrificing his daughter (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 34v
British Museum, London








