Keyword: Human Sacrifices – Image Gallery
The Sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham carrying a torch and a sword, followed by Isaac with firewood, who has no banderole with text (15th)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis Stiftsbibliothek - Cod. 166, fol. 24v
Neustift bei Brixen (Novacella), Stiftsbibliothek
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
Ritual Human Sacrifice [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 70r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1465)
from: Tiberinus, Johannes Matthias, Passio Beati Simonis
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Native American priest sacrifices or eviscerates a victim before an idol. (1774)
from: Zárate, Agustin de, Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête du Perou, vol. I, Compagnie des libraires, 1774, p. 64
John Carter Brown Library
Stone medallion with the purported martyrdom scene of Simonino di Trento (18th)
Palazzo Salvadori, Trent
The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)
Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent
The Sentinel in the Employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to Sacrifice his Son to the Ghost of the Shah’s Soul [1560]
from: Tales of a Parrot, [manuscript], [1560]
The Cleveland Museum of Arts, Cleveland
Human Sacrifice on Pyramids with Aztec Gods (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 131r
Victims for Sacrifice (1793)
from: Dalzel, Archibad. The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793
The Sacrifice of Abraham [1500]
Albertina, Vienna
Human sacrifice in the forest (1660)
from: Johan Picardt, Korte beschryvinge van eenige vergetene en verborgene antiquiteten ... in het antiquiteet-rijcke landschap Drenth, Tymon Houthaak, Amsterdam, 1660, fol. 67
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)
Museo provinciale Alto Adige
The sacrifice of Isaac (16th)
Christie's, London
Sacrifice of Isaac (1516-1518)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Vizlipuztli Idolum Mexicanorum (Huitzilopochtli Mexican Deity) (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671
The Sacrifice of Abraham [1520]
Louvre, Paris
Aztecs do Penance, cutting their Ears and Tongues [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 79r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1640 - 1642]
Galleria Spada, Rome
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
The Wicker Image (1676)
from: Aylett Sammes, Britannia Antiqua Illustrata, London, 1676, facing page 105
Giant snake eats a lion while a man is attacked by beasts with sharp teeth. Includes the bodies of other victims or sacrifices. Description of a temple in the Yucatan discovered by Francisco Fernandez de Córdoba and Cristobal Morantes. The temple is described as being a theater of marble with huge figures carved on the top. People were daily executed within the bars and their bodies thrown down on the ground below (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 73
John Carter Brown Library
A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite (1785)
from: Cook, James - King, James (1785) Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery , in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. In three volumes. and a fourth folio volume with engravings, known as Atlas
British Museum, London
Human Sacrifice for the Toci Goddess (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 181r
Human sacrifice (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
Sacrifice of Isaac [1585 - 1650]
Louvre, Paris
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1755)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A Man Sacrificed on an Aztec Pyramid [1501 - 1525]
from: Codex Borbonicus
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris
Neoptolemus Sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's Tomb [1500]
from: Anonymous / Unknown. Livre de la destruction de Troye, et la vraye hystoire de Eneas, n. p., n. p., 16c., fol. 169r
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fr. 22554
Ibrâhîm [Abraham] Sacrifice of his Son Ismâ'îl (1577)
Public Library, Spencer Collection, Persian, ms. 1, New York
Human sacrifice. Native American plunges a knife into another's chest. Two bodies hang, a statue of an idol or devil on a pillar stands at left (1554)
from: Pedro Cieza de León, Parte primera de la chronica del Peru, Antwerp, Iuan Steelsio, 1554, pag. 48
Cimetierre des Sacrifices (Cemetery of Sacrifices) (1745)
from: Prévost, Antoine François, Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues, Paris, Didot, 1754, vol. 12, p. after 544
Aztec Ritual with Human Linbs [1501 - 1525]
from: Codex Borbonicus
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris
Iphigenia Sacrifice (18th Century)
Private collection
Indian Sacrifice (16th Century)
Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 80r, Rome
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trient
Church of St Maria Rotonda. Pian Camuno, Val Camonica
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
Aztec sacrificing an Heart (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)
from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]
Stabi, Berlin
German broadsheet showing pilgrims visiting the relics of Simon, in a position known as victima. Bound with the account of Matthia Tiberino [description provided by Magda Teter] (1475)
from: Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, Rar. 338
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1400-1410)
from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 34]
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The sacrifice of Abel [1500-1542]
Louvre, Paris
Examination of Simon’s body after its discovery (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 8v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Gehorsame, The Obedient) (1675)
Universitätsbibliothek Zürich
Scene of worship and human sacrifice at a native American or Mexican temple (1691)
from: Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneira, Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, Paris, Boudot, 1691. p. 275
Two humans are sacrificed on this picture. One is drowned in a holy spring and one is burned. The man with a sword symbolizes probably another way of sacrificing of humans. To the right worshipping people. (1555)
from: Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Roma,Giovanni M. Viotto, 1555 (Book 3, Ch. 7, On the Geats’ Worship and Sacrifice, De sacrisi, et sacrificiis Gothorum).
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
Human Sacrifice to Vitzilipuztli (1745)
from: Prévost, Antoine François, Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues, Paris, Didot, 1754, vol. 12, p. after 544
Et Ketz (Mystical and Kabbalistic literature) (1710)
from: Yechacham – Rabbi Yitzchak Chaim HaCohen of the Kantorini Chazanim, Et Ketz, Amsterdam, Shlomo Proops 1710
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1280)
from: Psalter, St John College, Cambridge, MS K.26 fol. 10r
St John College, Cambridge
The Sacrifice of Abel (1530-1535)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Landscape with the Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]
from: Prague
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer
Sacrificial Knife (1648)
from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 158
Iphigenia at the Altar [1500]
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
A Man Burnt Alive during a Sacrifice (1572)
from: Codex Cozcatzin, c. 26r
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Iphigenia Sacrifice (16 - 17)
Unknown
Indian Sacrifice with Harrows (16th Century)
Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 88r, Rome
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1720)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
The sacrifice of Isaac. Isaac carries the wood for the sacrifice to Moriah (1470)
from: peculum humanae salvationis, Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 89, fol. 22v
Bibliothèque municipale, Marseille
Abraham Filium Suum Unigenitum Sacrifecit [1550 - 1600]
Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg
Abraham leading his son Isaac to sacrifice [1500-1550]
Louvre, Paris
Tenochtitlan, human sacrifice on Templo Mayor.VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent (1602)
from: Jansz, Bernhardus - Bry, Theodor de. [Collectio peregrinationum in Indiam occidentalem] : 9 : Americæ Nona & postrema Pars. Qua de Ratione Elementorum: De Novi Orbis Natura: De Huius Incolarum Superstitiosis cultibus, Frankfurt, Bekerum, 1602, VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Simon on the altar (“victima”) (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 9v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Sacrificial Knife (1648)
from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 156
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1789)
Palazzo Gnudi Scagliarini, Bologna
An Aztec Noble’s Sacrifice for his Country [1585]
from: Codex Ramírez or Tovar - Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias
John Carter Brown Library
James Cook, English Navigator, witnessing Human Sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) 1773ca. [1773]
from: Cook, James. Voyages, [Woodbridgen?], [Smith?], 1815
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1609)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Passover seder (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 6v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1212-1220)
from: Psalter, Oxford, MS M.43 fol. 11r
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Sacrifice of Polyxena [1590-1599]
from: Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum...
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 57N1
The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282
The ritualistic murder of a Christian child by a group of Jewish men; the child standing at centre, surrounded by five figures who are restraining, cutting him and gathering his blood; in an ornament frame with Gothic Laubwerk along upper edge; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511. (1511)
from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511
Bristih Museum
The sacrifice of Isaac. The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Ism'il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri (1585)
from: Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, Istanbul, Turkey
Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, detached folio, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)
Ibrahim Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac (17th)
from: Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi, Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets), ms, fol. 43 Turkey
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums Object Number 1985.275.43
The Wicker Man of the Druids Crop (18th Century)
from: Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales, London, H.D. Symonds, 1781
Sacrificio di Ifigenia [1760]
Schlossmuseum, Weimar
The Sacrifice of Isaac [1425]
from: Hafiz Abru, Majma` al-tavarikh, Sacrifice of Ismāʿīl, Walters Manuscript W.676Aa [from Istanbul]
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, à Diana (cerva eius in locum substituta) surripitur (1606)
from: Antonio Tempesta, Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum libri quindicem aeneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta Fiorentino incisi, et in pictorum antiquitatisque studiosorum gratiam nunc primum exquisitissimis sumptibus a Petro de Iode anteuerpiano in lucem editi, vol. 12, Anversa 1606, plate 112
The Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]
Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Meyer Dietrich d.Ä. ZEI 1.0016.003 Pp