Keyword: Ancient Romans – Image Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)
Warburg Insitute, London

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

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

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

Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Sacrifice to Cupid [1500]
Galleria Estense, Modena

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mars and Rhea Silvia [1617]
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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