Keyword: Ancient Romans – Image Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sacrifice to Priapus (16th)
Warburg Insitute, London

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

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

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

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

Mars and Rhea Silvia [1617]
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

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

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

Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

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

A Sacrifice to Cupid [1500]
Galleria Estense, Modena

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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