Keyword: Animal Sacrifice – Image Gallery
An Irish ritual of kingship: the sacrifice of a white mare and preparation of a stew, in which the king bathes and which his supporters ea (ca 1196-1223)
British Library, London [ms Royal 13 B. VIII, fol. 28v]
King Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols (1640(?))
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)
Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)
Sacrifice to Priapus [1537 - 1555]
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Den Haag
Sacrifice for priestly ordination (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol 2, p. 324, Tafel 203 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Ex 29,1
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 50 / emanuscripta
The Adoration of the Lamb - The Song of the Elect (1511)
Louvre, Paris
Temple Worship [1471]
from: Mishneh Torah, Opening panel to Sefer Avodah (Italy or Spain)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Noah, surrounded by animals, making a sacrifice to God after the Great Flood (1550-1572)
from: France
British Museum
Tripod vessel with baby jaguar sacrifice scene (650–750)
Princeton University Art Museum
Scene of cow sacrifice on a relief brass plaques (16th-17th)
from: Benin City, Nigeria
British Museum, London
Genesis, Cap. XV, v. 9-11, Sacrificium foederale (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome premier, tab. XXXIII
Levitici, Cap. XII, v. 6-s, Purperae Sacrificium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXVII
The Adoration of the Lamb (1432)
from: The Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Sacrifice of the red young cow (1683)
from: Petrus Cunaeus, De republyk der Hebreen, of gemeenebest der joden, 3 delen, Amsterdam, Wilhelmus Goeree, 1683
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Two boys preparing to sacrifice a young buffalo, Vārānasi , India (1920)
Yale University Library
Ladies of Krishna's Harem are Shown the Sacrificial Horse (1598)
from: Razmnama Mughal
Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library, London
De Loting over de Twee Bokken op den Verfoendag (1701)
from: Petrus Cunaeus, Willem Goeree (transl.), De Republyk Der Hebreen, of Gemeenebest der Joden, in drie boeken, Amsterdam, 1701, p. 433
Scene of idolatrous sacrifice (1668)
from: Der gantzen Welt Religionen oder Beschreibung aller Gottes- und Götzendienste wie auch Ketzereyen in Asia, Africa, America und Europa, Amsterdam, Joach. Nosch, 1668
Ezech, cap. XL, v. 43, Sacrificia ad clavos et in mensis (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome septieme, tab. DCXL
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
Beasts and the birds sacrificed (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nur,emberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 18r
British Museum, London
People of Qulla Suyu ofering a llama and basket of coca leaves to the mountain-waqa Willka Nuta (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.
A Pagan Sacrifice (1526)
National Gallery, London
Exodi Cap. XXIX. v. 1. Initiatio Sacerdotum (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCIII
Sacrifice of a Swan (1599–1622)
from: from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Job offering sacrifice (for Job 1: 5)
from: Olympiodorus, Diaconus
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 86 (Ms from Venice)
Sacrifice of the ram and the lamb (1301-1400)
from: La Bible hystoriaus
Paris, BnF, Français 160, fol 95
Per questo il Re sacrifica e partito chiede al milesio Dio per la figliuola, il qual risponde à l'ermo e' nculto lito Menala con l'honor funereo et sola lasciala quivi, che mortal marito Haver non dee, ma che per l'aer vola Di velen pieno et con immortal foco Distrugge 'l mondo, et mai non trova loco [1530]
from: Maestro del Dado, Favola di Psiche, [Roma] Ant. Sal. exc. [1532?]
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon
A sacrifice offered by Hermocrates [1548 - 1555]
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon
Sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1463-1463)
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Captivos rex Asa boves promissaq. reddit [...] [1589]
Bibliothèque municipale, Bordeaux
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
Sacrificial instruments of the Israelites (1784)
from: Dandré-Bardon, Michel François, Costume des anciens peuples, a l'usage des artistes / par M. Dandré Bardon ; contenant les usages religieux, civils, domestiques & militaires des Grecs, des Romains, des Israélites & des Hébreux, des Egyptiens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Amazones, des Parthes, des Daces, des Sarmates & autres peuples tant orientaux qu'occidentaux, Paris, A. Jombert, 1784-1786, vol. 3
Shepherd sacrificing Ram
from: Book of Meshal Ha-Kadmoni (from Germany)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107), fol. 24
Four Classical Figures (Pagan Sacrifice) (1638)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Sacrifice of the Camel (1666)
from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 1, pag. 128
"The First Adventure of the White Horse". The king performed the horse sacrifice in order to determine the extent of his rule. For one year a horse wanders and every land through which the horse passes becomes part of the king’s territory. Arjuna following the horse encountered the son-in-law of the god of fire, Agni, who creates a river of fire to block the warriors. Arjuna pleads with Agni, the god of fire that the horse be allowed to pass, saying that the horse sacrifice is in accordance with sacred Vedic injunctions, and that at the end of the year, the horse will be sacrificed to him, the god of fire himself. (1610-1617)
from: Page from the Khan Khanan's Razm Nama (Book of Wars)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Prior to taking up their abode in the hut, oblations have to be made to the presiding deities. Lakṣmaṇa hunts deer on the right, and returns to the hut to cook it; Rāma offers part of it as a sacrifice. The two brothers then eat, while Sītā waves a scarf over the food to keep the flies off, and she then retires to the hut to eat her own meal. The three begin their lives in exile in the peace of Citrakūṭa (ca 1653)
from: Ramayana, [ms Add. 15296(1), fol. 71]
British Library, London [from Udaipur]
Sacrifice of Noah [1630 - 1664]
Palazzo Bianco - Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa
Emperor Jahangir and Prince Khurram at the gathering for the Feast of the Sacrifice (1615-1625)
from: India
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst
The sacrificed horse is prepared (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda, Ms Add. 15295, fol. 34
British Library, London [from Udaipur]
Aaron and his sons sacrificing a ram, as described in Exodus 29:13-22 (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 324
Lowcountry Digital Library
The Sacrifice of Isaac
from: Ancient mosaic pavement from the 6th century, Beit Alfa Synagogue
Beit Alfa Synagogue, Beit She'an (near to), Israel
Sacrifice d'un Agneau Noir, le jour de la grande fête du Soleil (1723)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Episode of Roman History with Iustitia and Prudentia (1711(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Sacrifice of Noah [1580 - 1610]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab I. Pictura exhibens sacrificium solis. Tav. II Pictura Indica autographa exhibens holocaustum ignis (1791)
from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791
New York Public Library
Scenes related to Saint Augustine addressing the Romans, featuring the Mass and, in the upper right, an animal sacrifice in the Temple. Augustine's words on a scroll read: «C'est le vray sacrifice a Dieu agreable». [1480]
from: St. Augustin [Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis]: La cité de Dieu. Enlumineur Maître de Coëtivy, Traducteur: Raoul de Presles (1316-1382). Miniature at the beginning of book 10
France, Mâcon, Médiathèque et Archives municipales, Ms. 1, fol. 305
The Sacrifice of Abel (1530-1535)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
The preparation for the Passover festival: heep are slaughtered for Passover and a man purifies utensils in a cauldron over a fire (c. 1320)
from: Golden Haggadah (northern Spain)
London, British Library, Add 27210, fol. 15r
Allegory of Triumph and Sacrifice [1520]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sacrifice of a Pig [1547 - 1587]
RISD Museum, Providence
King Eteez of Colchis takes Phryxus under his protection (16th Century)
from: René Boyvin ; Léonard Thiry, Histoire de Jason et de la conquête de la Toison d'or, [Paris], [n.p.], [1563?]
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon
Sacrifice to Bacchus [1501 - 1525]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
King Sagara performs a sacrifice (1712)
from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda
British Library, Add. 15295, f.105
Pesah dorot (from the Birds’ Head Haggadah) (1300)
from: Birds’ Head Haggadah (Germany)
Israel Museum in Jerusalem
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1320)
from: Golden Haggadah (northern Spain)
London, British Library, Add 27210, fol. 4v
Solomon sacrifices at Gabaon (1428)
from: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Clm 15701, fol. 144v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The sacrifice of the red heifer [1530]
from: Bible moralisée [Napoli]
Paris, BnF, Français 9561 f.93
Sacrifice to Mercury (1502 - 1507)
Cathedral, Biblioteca Piccolomini, Siena
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1553)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
15th c. depiction of Jewish ritual slaughter of animals for consumption (15th)
from: Jacob b. Asher, Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים)
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Ross. 555. fol. 127v
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The clothing of the Jewish priests (1697)
from: Johannes Braun: Bigdê kohanîm. Id Est Vestitus Sacerdotum Hebraeorum, 2 Bde., Amsterdam: Abraham van Someren, 1697-1698
Pobre de los Indios. De seis animales que comen que temen. (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 694].
L'Autel du Sacrifice, Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (1550-1560)
from: France
V&A Museum, London
Noah, his family and the animals leave the ark and offer sacrifice to God (1500)
from: Metrical Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus [Ms Add. 40724, fol. 23]
British Library, London
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1822)
from: Modello in gesso per metope del Tempio della Trinità di Possagno
Venezia, Gallerie dell'Accademia
The Sacrifice of Gideon (1400-1410)
from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 129v
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Levitici, Cap. III, v. 4. 16-17, Renes cum Pinguedine et omento (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXV
Sacrifice des premiers nez chez les Floridiens, expliqué à la pag. 181. / Sacrifice de la dépoūille d'un cerf, à la Floride / Caraïbe offrant la Cassave et l'Ovicou, a un poteau érigé en titre ou symbole de la Divinité (Sacrifice of the firstborn by the Floridians. 2. Sacrifice of the stag in Florida. 3. A Carib offers cassava bread at a post symbolizing the deities) (1724)
from: Plate 7 in Lafitau, Moeurs des sauvages amériquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps, Paris, 1724
Les Lévites se nourriront des sacrifices (1538)
from: Holbein, Hans, Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées, Lyon, Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for Jean and François Frellon], 1538
Louvre, Paris
King Jeroboam Making Sacrifice to the Golden Calf (17 - 18)
Staten Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
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
The Sacrifice of Noah (16th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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
Burnt offerings in the Temple of Jerusalem from within the Court of the Levites (1660)
from: plate from the 'Restoration' Bible 2 vols., published by John Ogilby, Cambridge, 1660
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Ammon Herm (1652)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654
The Sacrifice of Elijah (1552-1557)
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
Sacrifice of pure Animals (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, nach S. 378, Tafel 223 (ZB III ZZ 55) Illustriert Lev 1,2-3
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 63 / emanuscripta
Levitici, Cap. XXII, v. 22-24, Sacrificia Rejicula (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXXII
The sacrifice of Moses (1586)
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Gen. VIII, Gratus grata Deo sua fert Holocausta Noachus [1712]
from: C. Wiegel, Historiae celebriores veteris testamenti iconibus representatae, et ad excitandas bonas meditationes selectis epigrammatibus exornatae in lucem datae a Christophoro Weigelio, Noribergae, 1712, n. p.
Cain killing Abel, besides Cain and Abel sacrificing (15th)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis Stiftsbibliothek - Cod. 166, fol. 21r
Neustift bei Brixen (Novacella), Stiftsbibliothek
Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Levitici, Cap. X, v. 2, Igne Peccantes, Igne Necantur (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXVII
Levitici, Cap. XIII, v. 29-37, Psora, Tinea (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXIX
Levitici, Cap. III, v. 4.16-17, Renes cum Pinguedine et Omento (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXV