Keyword: Pagan Sacrifice – Image Gallery

Jeroboam's Sacrifice at Bethel (1656)
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

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

The Sacrifice of Pélias to Neptune (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols [1704 - 1744]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)
Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)

Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four Classical Figures (Pagan Sacrifice) (1638)
Metropolitan Museum, New York

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.

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)

Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)
Vatican Museum, Vatican

Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992

Jeroboam Offering Sacrifice for the Idols (1752)
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

The Idol Moloch with Seven Chambers or Chapels (1711)
from: Lund, Johann. Die Alten Jüdischen Heiligthümer, Hamburg, Fickweiler, 1711

The Triumph of the Eucharist [1625]
Museo del Prado, Madrid

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

Ancient Sacrifice (1535 - 1539)
Galerie François-Ier, château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau

(1663)
from: L'Enea vagante pitture dei Caracci (from the frescos in Bologna, Palazzo Fava)
Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini, Roma

Menelaus and Ulysses (17th Century)
Musée de la Faïence, Nevers

A Pagan Sacrifice (1526)
National Gallery, London

James Cook, English Navigator, witnessing Human Sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) 1773ca. [1773]
from: Cook, James. Voyages, [Woodbridgen?], [Smith?], 1815

https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/object-wpc-wid-diaw (1535)
from: Italy
National Gallery of Art, Washington

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

The Wicker Man of the Druids Crop (18th Century)
from: Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales, London, H.D. Symonds, 1781

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

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

The god Moloch with an infant in his arms as a sacrifice, (1738)
from: ohann Lund:
University of Heidelberg

The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron (1481 - 1482)
Sistine Chapel, Wall, Vatican

A King Compelled to Offer a Sacrifice by Two Gorgonians (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

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

Sacrifice to Pan (1771)
Colección particular, Zaragoza (Spain)

The sacrifice of a ram (1575)
from: Antoine Lafréry, Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Roma 1575 ca.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

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

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

Sacrifice to Vesta (1771)
Colección Félix Palacios Remondo, Zaragoza (Spain)

Martirio de San Mauricio y la Legión Tebana (1582)
Sala de Capas, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain)

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

The sacrifice of the black Bull (1584)
Palazzo Fava, Bologna

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

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1529-1530)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pagan sacrifice (17th)
from: Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe