Keyword: Ancient Romans – Image Gallery

Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (1530–35)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York

The sacrifice at the altar of Apollo (1571)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Aeneas Offers Sacrifice to the Gods of the Lower World (1530-1540)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Episode of Roman History with Iustitia and Prudentia (1711(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Death Decius Mus (1641)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Fight between Horatii and Curiatii (1612 - 1613)
Musei capitolini, Sala degli Orazi, Rome

Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris

Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992

Sacrifice to Bacchus [1501 - 1525]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Sacrifice of Mucius Scevola (17th Century)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole

Ancient Sacrifice and Head of a Satyr (?th Century)
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Sacrificing the Sabine cow (1470-1480)
from: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, trad. Simon de Hesdin et Nicolas de Gonesse (Bruges)
Paris, BnF, Français 289 f.329v

Suovetaurilia; at right bulls, rams and boars being brought towards the altar positioned in front of the entrance of a circular temple, various animals being sacrificed to left. (1566)
from: An illustration to Onofrio Panvinio's 'De Ludis Circensibus', published in Rome
The British Museum, London

Jacopo Pesaro Being Presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter [1511 - 1513]
Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Sacrifice with Vesta (1518 - 1519)
Camera di San Paolo, Parma

Atilius Regulus Forced in the Barrel [1530 - 1540]
Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Rome

The Death of Atilius Regulus (1662)
Galleria Trincia, Rome

Hercules sacrificing Busiris (king of Egypt) (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

Numancia (1880 - 1881)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)

Sacrifice to Minerva (16th Century)
from: [Pliny the Elder], Gaius Plinius Secundus. Naturalis Historia, n. p., n. p., 16c., book XXXVI, n. p.
Public Library, New York

A Sacrifice to Cupid [1500]
Galleria Estense, Modena

(1663)
from: L'Enea vagante pitture dei Caracci (from the frescos in Bologna, Palazzo Fava)
Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini, Roma

Atilius Regulus Leave (18th Century)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe (scatola 10), Venice

Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Aeneas finds a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno [1530]
from: Vergil, Aeneid (Limoges, France)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 1604-1855)

The Torture of Atilius Regulus [1542 - 1543]
British Museum, London

Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano

Consacration of Decius Mus (1616 - 1617)
Prince of Liechtenstein's Collections, Wien

An Augur Questions the Gods for Numa Pompilius (1768 - 1769)
from: Wikimedia

Sacrifice to Priapus (16th Century)
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (B.XIV.207.258)

Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]
Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua

Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna (1726 - 1729)
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Suovetaurilia, the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a sheep (ovis) and a bull (taurus) (1585-1588)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

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

Aeneas sacrifices at the tomb of Anchises, a giant snake winds around the altar (1688)
from: Peplus virtutum Romanarum in Aenea Virgiliano eiusque rebus fortiter gestis, ad maiorem antiquitatis et rerum lucem, communi iuventutis sacratae bono, aere renitens) (Nuremburg: J.L. Buggel, 1688), pl. 18.
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum

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

Sacrifice to Jupiter [1501 - 1525]
Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

Sacrifice to Mercury (1502 - 1507)
Cathedral, Biblioteca Piccolomini, Siena

Sacrifice to Priapus (1540 - 1550)
British Museum (Dep. of Prints and Drawings), London

Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Atilius Regulus in the Spiked Barrel (17th Century)
Museo Civico, Feltre

Ancient Ritual Sacrifice (1553)
from: Lafréry, Antoine. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae [...], Roma, n. p., 1553, A 110
University of Chicago Library, Chicago

The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona

Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)
Warburg Insitute, London

Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Hercules [1575]
Harvard Art Museums nr 2016.248.10

The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers

Sacrifice to Priapus [1537 - 1555]
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Den Haag

Mars and Rhea Silvia [1617]
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Saint Cecilia Martyrdom [1520 - 1525]
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XIV.114.107)

Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18th Century)
Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer