Keyword: Human Sacrifices – Image Gallery

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesIranIslamManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

Chandrahasa Sacrifice, made by Qabil (1598)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BloodFireHinduHuman SacrificesIndia

Pittoni, Giambattista il Giovane

The Sacrifice of Polixena at the Tomb of Achilles [1735]

The Walter Art Museum, Baltimore

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPaintingsPolyxena

Anonymous / Unknown

A Man Burnt Alive during a Sacrifice (1572)

from: Codex Cozcatzin, c. 26r

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Griffiths, Moses

The Wicker Man of the Druids Crop (18^th Century)

from: Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales, London, H.D. Symonds, 1781

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 6 (16^th Century)

from: ms. Laud Misc. 678

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)

from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksHuman SacrificesManuscriptPolyxenaWomen

Beatrizet, Nicolas

Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAncient SacrificesCoins and MedalsHuman SacrificesIphigenia

Anonymous / Unknown

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)

Museo provinciale Alto Adige

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Woollett, William

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: EngravingsHuman SacrificesPacific OceanTahiti

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Human Sacrifice (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, I

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1465)

from: Tiberinus, Johannes Matthias, Passio Beati Simonis

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacHuman SacrificesManuscript

Tovar, Juan de

Skulls at the Temple [1585]

from: Codex Ramírez or Tovar - Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias

John Carter Brown Library

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 1 [1501 - 1550]

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 72 (3)

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrificial Knife [1400 - 1521]

from: Mexico

British Museum, Am,St.399, London

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesKnifeMixtec

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of Isaac [1510]

from: Siena

V&A Museum, London

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleCeramicDishHuman Sacrifices

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Human Sacrifice (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

A Symbolf of the Sacrifices to an Aztec God (demon) [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 12r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

James Cook, English Navigator, witnessing Human Sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) 1773ca. [1773]

from: Cook, James. Voyages, [Woodbridgen?], [Smith?], 1815

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesNative AmericansPagan Sacrifice

Mayer, Felix

The Sacrifice of Isaac (Gehorsame, The Obedient) (1675)

Universitätsbibliothek Zürich

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Master IO.FF.

Iphigenia at the Altar [1500]

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksCoins and MedalsFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigenia

Duran, Diego de

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Graf, Urs

The martyrdom of Simon of Trent; a small child tied to a pole with two men cutting his skin while another holds a bowl underneath the boy's feet to collect the blood; illustration to Jacobus de Voragine, 'Passionael efte dat levent der hyllighten', Basel: Adam Petri, 1517. (1517)

from: Jacobus de Voragine, Passionael efte dat levent der hyllighten', Basel, Adam Petri, 1517

British Museum

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

Anonymous /Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1170)

from: The Hunterian Psalter, fol. 9v

University of Glasgow Library

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacEnglandHuman SacrificesManuscriptPsalter

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (14th)

from: Pskov

The State Ermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleFrescosHuman SacrificesRussia

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac. Isaac carries the wood to Moriah [1415]

from: Provinzialbibliothek - Speculum humanae salvationis, 2 Ms. 46, fol. 55v

Provinzialbibliothek, Amberg

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleFireHuman SacrificesManuscript

Sauer, Nikolaus

The Sacrifice of Abraham (1720)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman Sacrifices

Tovar, Juan de

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

A Man Sacrificed on an Aztec Pyramid [1501 - 1525]

from: Codex Borbonicus

Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Romano, Giulio [Pippi, Giulio]

Sacrifice of Isaac (1516-1518)

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Atelier de Fontainebleau, dit d'Avon

Sacrifice of Isaac [1585 - 1650]

Louvre, Paris

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamBible, Old TestamentHuman SacrificesIsaac

Castrucci, Cosimo - Castrucci, Giovanni

Landscape with the Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]

from: Italy

Villa Borghese, Rome

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificesPietra Dura

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1480-1490)

from: Vita Christi [Getty Museum, Ms. 101, fol. 11, England]

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificesManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

Tumi, Ritual Knife (12th–15th)

from: Peru, North Coast

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: ChimúCopperHuman SacrificesKnifeNative Americans

Bry, Johann-Theodor de

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexicoNative AmericansTenochtitlan

Avelli, Francesco Xanto, School of - Aspertini, Amico, After

The sacrifice of Abel [1500-1542]

Louvre, Paris

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbelCainHuman SacrificesRound Cup

Anonymous / Unknown

Tumi, Ritual Knife (450-650)

from: Peru, North Coast

The Walter Art Museum, Baltimore

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesKnifeMocheNative AmericansPeru

Ulrich, Heinrich

The Sacrifice of Abraham (1609)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

Iphigenia Sacrifice (18^th Century)

Private collection

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

Orley, Bernard van

The sacrifice of Isaac (16th)

Christie's, London

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleGenesisHuman SacrificesPaintings

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Human sacrifice (1577)

from: Historia general de las cosas de nueva España, II

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. m.p. 220, Firenze

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Meister Bertram

Sacrifice of Isaac (1379–1383)

from: St. Petri church, Hamburg

Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleGermanyHuman SacrificesPaintings

Anonymous / Unknown

Ibrâhîm [Abraham] Sacrifice of his Son Ismâ'îl (1577)

Public Library, Spencer Collection, Persian, ms. 1, New York

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentHuman SacrificesIslamic Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Human Sacrifice in front of a God (1530 - 1554)

from: Codex Tudela

Museo de América, Madrid

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1740)

from: Netherlands

V&A Museum, London

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleCeramicHuman SacrificesTiles

Biard, Pierre

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17^th Century)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 80r, Rome

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Giolfino, Niccolò

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (15-16th)

from: Italy

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wheatland Object Number 1943.1841

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAncient SacrificesHuman SacrificesIphigeniaPaintings

Prevort, Karl

Purported ritual murder - Blood libel (18th)

Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesPoland

Veneziani, Agostino - Aspertini, Amico, After

The Sacrifice of Abel (1530-1535)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbelAnimal Sacrifice CainHuman Sacrifices

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Sacrificial Knife (1648)

from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 158

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntiquarianismHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamericaNative Americans

Xačʿatur

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1455)

from: Gospels, Armenia (monastery of Gamałiēl in Xizan), Walters Manuscript W.543, fol. 4r

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelArmeniaBibleHuman SacrificesIsaacManuscript

Zampieri, Domenico (Domenichino)

Iphigenia Sacrifice [1609]

Palazzo Giustiniani-Odescalchi, Bassano Romano

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesMexicoNative Americans

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 2 (1556)

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac (Bild des Stark-Gläubigen) (1720)

from: Winterthur

Universitätsbibliothek Zürich

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Rembrandt, van Rijn

The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelBibleGenesisHuman SacrificeHuman SacrificesIsaacKnifePrint

Delaune, Étienne

The sacrifice of Isaac. Grotesques à Fond Noir (16th)

from: France

V&A Museum, London

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleFireHuman SacrificesOrnament Prints

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 4 (16^th Century)

from: ms. Laud Misc. 678

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)

from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]

Stabi, Berlin

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BibleHuman SacrificesJephthahWomen

Martyrdom of Saint Simonino

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

The sacrifice of Isaac (1160)

from: Valley of Meusa, France

Louvre, Paris

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificesPlacque of a cross

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1619)

from: Switzerland

The State Ermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificesStained Glass

Anonymous /Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1280)

from: Psalter, St John College, Cambridge, MS K.26 fol. 10r

St John College, Cambridge

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacEnglandHuman SacrificesManuscriptPsalter

Tempesta, Antonio

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

Duran, Diego de

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 5 (16^th Century)

from: ms. Laud Misc. 678

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Duran, Diego de

Aztec Human Sacrifice on the Altar (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 238r

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Dalzel, Archibad

Victims for Sacrifice (1793)

from: Dalzel, Archibad. The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa, London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AfricaHuman SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 3 (1556)

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Sarkavag, T'oros

The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)

from: Gospels, Armenia

Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacArmeniaFireHuman SacrificesManuscript

[Schley, Jacobus van der]

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesMesoamericaMexicoNative Americans

Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico

Sacrificio di Ifigenia [1760]

Schlossmuseum, Weimar

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

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

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireForestHuman SacrificesPagan SacrificePrint

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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Keywords: Human SacrificesMexicoNative Americans

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1600]

Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Meyer Dietrich d.Ä. ZEI 1.0016.003 Pp

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleDrawingHuman Sacrifices

Duran, Diego de

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

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Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Brunswick Monogrammist

Abraham leading his son Isaac to sacrifice [1500-1550]

Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: AbrahamBibleHuman SacrificesIsaac

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1400-1410)

from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 34]

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleBible, Old TestamentHuman SacrificesIsaac

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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Keywords: FireHuman SacrificesNative AmericansPeru

Mauch, Daniel (school of)

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)

Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent

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Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

Tempesta, Antonio

Sacrifice of Polyxena [1590-1599]

from: Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum...

Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 57N1

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksHuman SacrificesPolyxenaWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Passover seder (1475)

from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 6v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

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Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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Keywords: AmericasHuman sacrificeHuman SacrificesNative AmericansPeru

Silber, Jonas

The Sacrifice of Isaac (Dotter manner Engraving) (1572-1590)

from: Germany

V&A Museum, London

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBibleEngravingsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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Keywords: Human SacrificesIslamic Sacrifice

[French]

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

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Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPolyxena

[Schley, Jacobus van der]

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

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Keywords: Human SacrificesMesoamericaMexicoNative AmericansVitzilipuztli