Keyword: Pagan Sacrifice – Image Gallery

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

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

Keywords: FireForestHuman SacrificesPagan SacrificePrint

Picart, Bernard

The Great Sacrifice of the Canadians Indians (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: EngravingsNative AmericansNorth AmericaPagan Sacrifice

Fiorentino, Rosso

Ancient Sacrifice (1535 - 1539)

Galerie François-Ier, château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau

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Keywords: Pagan Sacrifice

[Vico, Enea]

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

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Pagan Sacrifice

Dalzel, Archibad

Victims for Sacrifice (1793)

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

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Keywords: AfricaHuman SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

Eimmart, Georg Christoph

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

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Pagan Sacrifice

Goya, Francisco de

Sacrifice to Pan (1771)

Colección particular, Zaragoza (Spain)

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificesIconographyPagan SacrificeSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Qui fictos virtute Sacra reprende cultus Missus erat, sancte fata futura canit (?^th Century)

Wellcome collection, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, 1 KingsBible, Old TestamentFireIdolatryIsraelJeroboamJewish SacrificePagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Carracci, Agostino

The sacrifice of the black Bull (1584)

Palazzo Fava, Bologna

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice BullFrescosPagan Sacrifice

Poilly, François de

Sacerdos quoque Iovis, qio erat ante Civitatem, tauros et coronas ante janiias afferens cum populis volebat Sacrificare quod ubi audierunt Apostoli Barnabas et Paulus conscissis tunicis suis exilierunt in turbas clamantes (1645)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Acts of the ApostlesBible, New TestamentLystraPagan Sacrifice

Goya, Francisco de

Sacrifice to Vesta (1771)

Colección Félix Palacios Remondo, Zaragoza (Spain)

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificesIconographyPagan SacrificeSacrificial Objects

Fuhrmann, Mathias

Pagan burnt offering in ancient Austria (1734-1737)

from: Alt- und Neues Oesterreich, Oder Compendieuse Universal-Historie Von dem alt- und neuen, geistlich und weltlichen Zustand dieses Lands, Bd. 4: Oesterreichisches Heydenthum, oder Völcker-Beschreibung der alten Zeiten vor und unter den Römern […], Wien: Heyinger, 1737

UB Heidelberg, B 6526 A RES

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAustriaPagan Sacrifice

Master of the Aeneid

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

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ManuscriptPagan Sacrifice

Griffiths, Moses

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

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

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Keywords: Human SacrificesPagan Sacrifice

[El Greco], Domenikos Theotokopoulos

Martirio de San Mauricio y la Legión Tebana (1582)

Sala de Capas, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain)

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

Keywords: History of Ancient RomeIconographyIdolatryMartyrdomPagan Sacrifice

Hollar, Václav

Four Classical Figures (Pagan Sacrifice) (1638)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice DrawingPagan Sacrifice

Delaune, Étienne (after: Rosso Fiorentino)

Sacrifice to Jupiter: two priests burning an animal on the altar fire, placed before a statue of Jupiter enthroned; in the foreground, a mother pointing to the altar and a man cutting the throat of a lamb (1550-1583)

The British Museum, London

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireLambPagan SacrificeRitual Slaughtering

Garofalo

A Pagan Sacrifice (1526)

National Gallery, London

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice Pagan SacrificePaintings

Coecke van Aelst, Pieter

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1529-1530)

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksBarnabasLystraPagan SacrificeSaint Paul

[Weigel, Christoph]

I. Regum XIII, Rumpitur Ara [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.

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

Keywords: Bible, 1 KingsBible, Old TestamentJeroboamPagan Sacrifice

Gaultier, Léonard

Menelaus and Ulysses (17^th Century)

Musée de la Faïence, Nevers

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Ghisi Scultori, Diana (after Giulio Romano)

A sacrifice in the temple of Jupiter (1531-1534)

from: Italy

Royal Collection Trust

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice AntiquarianismItalyPagan Sacrifice

Durantino da Urbino, Guido

https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/object-wpc-wid-diaw (1535)

from: Italy

National Gallery of Art, Washington

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeCeramicsDishFirePagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

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

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

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Keywords: Human SacrificesNative AmericansPagan Sacrifice

Roore, Jacques Ignatius de

Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols [1704 - 1744]

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, 2 KingsBible, Old TestamentFireIsraelJeroboamLambPagan SacrificeRitual Slaughtering

Fantuzzi, Antonio

Sacrificial scene inspired by a work of Rosso Fiorentino (1542)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

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Botticelli, Sandro

The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron (1481 - 1482)

Sistine Chapel, Wall, Vatican

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Keywords: Anti-Pagan SacrificesBible, Old TestamentFrescosMosesPagan Sacrifice

Sanzio, Raffaello

Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Acts of the ApostlesLystraPagan SacrificeWomen

Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den

Jeroboam's Sacrifice at Bethel (1656)

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

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Keywords: Bible, 1 KingsBible, Old TestamentIsraelJeroboamPagan Sacrifice

Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria 1634-1718

(1663)

from: L'Enea vagante pitture dei Caracci (from the frescos in Bologna, Palazzo Fava)

Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini, Roma

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice AntiquarianismBolognaPagan Sacrifice

Carracci, Agostino

The Sacrifice of Pélias to Neptune (17^th Century)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice ArgonautsPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Marcanova, Giovanni 1410-1467

Animal Sacrifice [1471]

Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice AntiquarianismCalfFireItalyPagan SacrificeRamRitual Slaughtering

Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, Giovanni Antonio

Sacrifices among the Jagas (Sacrificio de Giaghi) (1665-1668)

from: Missione Evangelica al Regno del Congo [Araldi Ms, vol. C]

Gallerie Estensi, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena

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Keywords: AfricaCongoHuman SacrificeKnifePagan Sacrifice

Bronzino, Agnolo

Pygmalion and Galatea (1529-1530)

from: Italy

Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice CalfFireFlorenceItalyPagan Sacrifice

Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio

Pagan sacrifice (17th)

from: Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe

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Dente, Marco

The sacrifice of a ram (1575)

from: Antoine Lafréry, Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Roma 1575 ca.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HolocaustsPagan SacrificeRamRome

Collaert, Adriaen - De Vos, Maarten - Galle, Philips 560-1618

Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)

Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Christ's SacrificeFireJewish StudiesMassPagan SacrificeSacrifice Compared

Lund, Johann

The Idol Moloch with Seven Chambers or Chapels (1711)

from: Lund, Johann. Die Alten Jüdischen Heiligthümer, Hamburg, Fickweiler, 1711

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsIdolatryMolochPagan Sacrifice

Sichem, Christoffel van, de Jonge

Pagan Sacrifice of King Ahaz (1646)

from: Bibels tresoor, ofte der zielen lusthof, vytgebeelt in figueren, door verscheyden meesters. Ende gesneden, door Christoffel van Sichem, Amsterdam, P. I. Paets, 1646, p. 592

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentIdolatryPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Göding, Heinrich

Saxons worshipping their gods; the deities on a temple structure on l, priests dressed as bishops on r, smoke rising from sacrifices at centre. (1597)

from: Illustration to Peter Albinus, 'Außzug der Eltisten und fürnembsten Historien des uralten streitbarn und beruffenen Volcks der Sachssen ...', (Dresden) 1597. 1597 Hand-coloured etching and letterpress

The British Museum, London

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Keywords: FireNorthern EuropePagan SacrificeSaxons

Isaac, Jaspar de

The Athenians sacrifice to the newborn Minerva (1629)

from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 510

Warburg Institute

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FirePagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrificium Achas Regis Idololatrae IIII.Reg.XVI (1539)

from: Aemilius, Georg. Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis epigrammatibus à Georgio Aemylio illustratae, Frankfurt, Christianus Egenolphus, [1539], p. Hiv(verso)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentIdolatryPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Rubens, Peter Paul

The Triumph of the Eucharist [1625]

Museo del Prado, Madrid

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 4. Sacrifice and Eucharist (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: EucharistPagan Sacrifice

Sanzio, Raffaello

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)

Vatican Museum, Vatican

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksLystraPagan SacrificeRomeSaint Paul

Luini, Bernardino

Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano

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Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePagan SacrificePan

Master of the Aeneid

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)

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice FireFranceManuscriptPagan SacrificePig

Fragonard, Jean Honoré

Jeroboam Offering Sacrifice for the Idols (1752)

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

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

Keywords: Bible, 1 KingsBible, Old TestamentIdolatryIsraelJeroboamPagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

A King Compelled to Offer a Sacrifice by Two Gorgonians (17^th Century)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirePagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Unknown

The god Moloch with an infant in his arms as a sacrifice, (1738)

from: ohann Lund:

University of Heidelberg

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

Keywords: Child SacrificeMolochPagan Sacrifice

Picart, Bernard

Ancient Nordic Sami People Sacrifice and Pagan Religious Feast (1723 - 1743)

from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743

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

Keywords: EngravingsPagan Sacrifice

Koning, Theodoor

Idolatry of Jeroboam (1780)

from: Flavius Josephus. Alle de werken van Flavius Josephus, naar het Grieksch in 't Engelsch gebragt en verkort, waar by gevoegd is: de twee boeken van Josephus tegens Appion; zyn Richtsnor der Reden, of het martelaarschap der Macchabeen, en 't gezantschap van Philo den Jood aan den keizer Cajus Caligula. Uit het Engelsch in het Nederduitsch vertaald. Eerste deel, Amserdam, J. van Gulik, 1780, p. 300

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Keywords: Bible, 1 KingsIdolatryJeroboamPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Master of the Aeneid

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

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice BullCalfFirePagan Sacrifice