Keyword: Human Sacrifices – Image Gallery
A Man Sacrificed on an Aztec Pyramid [1501 - 1525]
from: Codex Borbonicus
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1280)
from: Psalter, St John College, Cambridge, MS K.26 fol. 10r
St John College, Cambridge
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
The Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]
Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Meyer Dietrich d.Ä. ZEI 1.0016.003 Pp
Moloch (1652 - 1654)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)
from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Aztec Human Sacrifice (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
Sacrificial Knife (1648)
from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 156
Aztec sacrificing an Heart (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
Interior of a temple with an idol which has horns and faces on its chest. Also includes torches and lamps. Includes a scene of sacrifice, bones or skeleton, knife, and European soldiers. (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 82
John Carter Brown Library
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 Isaac [1425]
from: Hafiz Abru, Majma` al-tavarikh, Sacrifice of Ismāʿīl, Walters Manuscript W.676Aa [from Istanbul]
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
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
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1480-1490)
from: Vita Christi [Getty Museum, Ms. 101, fol. 11, England]
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Aztec Human Sacrifice (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 75r
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
James Cook, English Navigator, witnessing Human Sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) 1773ca. [1773]
from: Cook, James. Voyages, [Woodbridgen?], [Smith?], 1815
Aztec Temple with Hung Skulls (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 232v
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1755)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sacrificial Knife, Zoomophic Handle [1300-1521]
Museo delle Civilità/MPE Pigorini inv. 4215
Execution of the baptized Jews in Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 12v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Abraham leading his son Isaac to sacrifice [1500-1550]
Louvre, Paris
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1465)
from: Tiberinus, Johannes Matthias, Passio Beati Simonis
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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
The Sacrifice of Abraham (1720)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)
The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Stone medallion with the purported martyrdom scene of Simonino di Trento (18th)
Palazzo Salvadori, Trent
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1400-1410)
from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 34]
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent - Simone as Martyr (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 4v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Sacrifice of Abraham [1500]
Albertina, Vienna
Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)
from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]
Stabi, Berlin
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).
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd]
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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
Sacrificial Knife (1634)
from: Liceti, Fortunio, Pyronarcha, sive, De fulminum natura deque febrium origine, Crivellarum, Padua, 1634, p. 123
Et Ketz (Mystical and Kabbalistic literature) (1710)
from: Yechacham – Rabbi Yitzchak Chaim HaCohen of the Kantorini Chazanim, Et Ketz, Amsterdam, Shlomo Proops 1710
Ibrâhîm [Abraham] Sacrifice of his Son Ismâ'îl (1577)
Public Library, Spencer Collection, Persian, ms. 1, New York
The Sacrifice of Polixena at the Tomb of Achilles [1735]
The Walter Art Museum, Baltimore
The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282
Jews put to the flames (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 11v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The sacrifice of Isaac [1470]
from: Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 89, fol. 53r
Bibliothèque municipale, Marseille
Aztec Ritual with Human Linbs [1501 - 1525]
from: Codex Borbonicus
Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris
Landscape with the Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]
from: Prague
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer
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 Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1789)
Palazzo Gnudi Scagliarini, Bologna
Indian Sacrifice (16th Century)
Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 80r, Rome
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
Human sacrifice (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
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 (1550-1599)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
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
The sacrifice of Isaac. Isaac carries the wood to Moriah [1415]
from: Provinzialbibliothek - Speculum humanae salvationis, 2 Ms. 46, fol. 55v
Provinzialbibliothek, Amberg
Vizlipuztli Idolum Mexicanorum (Huitzilopochtli Mexican Deity) (1671)
from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)
Museo provinciale Alto Adige
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
Passover seder (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 6v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)
Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent
Sacrificial Knife (1648)
from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 158
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
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
Execution of Jews in Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 10v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Il sacrificio di Ifigenia [1632 - 1633]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The sacrifice of Abel [1500-1542]
Louvre, Paris
Sacrfice and Revenge among the Aztecs (1579)
from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 70r
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
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1640 - 1642]
Galleria Spada, Rome
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Gehorsame, The Obedient) (1675)
Universitätsbibliothek Zürich
Simon of Trent’s corpse (“victima”) (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 5v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1212-1220)
from: Psalter, Oxford, MS M.43 fol. 11r
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
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
Ritual Feast with Human Linbs offered to a God [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 73r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
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
Aztecs do Penance, cutting their Ears and Tongues [1526 - 1550]
from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 79r
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence
Iphigenia Sacrifice (18th Century)
Private collection
Abraham Filium Suum Unigenitum Sacrifecit [1550 - 1600]
Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg
Human Sacrifice (1577)
from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, I
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze
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
Sacrifice of Isaac (1516-1518)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saint Simon of Trent holding the flag and a shield; standing on the body of a male figure; in a border with flowers on black ground; 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
British Museum
Iphigenia Sacrifice [1609]
Palazzo Giustiniani-Odescalchi, Bassano Romano