Topic: 1. Sacrifice and Bible (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery

Temple Worship [1471]
from: Mishneh Torah, Opening panel to Sefer Avodah (Italy or Spain)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Samson at the temple of Dagôn (1482)
from: Mirouer de la redempcion de l'umain lignage. Traducteur Julien Macho
Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, Rés Inc 1043 f. 419

Victima, per Manuen domino mactatur optima: Uxor Samsonem quod paritura foret (1579)
from: Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum Veteris Testamenti, elegantissimis imaginibus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera, Sumptibus atque expensis, [Antwerp], Gerardi de Iode 1579
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

The Sacrifice of Isaac (frontispiece with eleven biblical miniatures centering around the Sacrifice of Isaac) (1739)
from: BIBLE, Hebrew. Arba'ah ve-Esrim [Complete Hebrew Bible with Italian glosses and with engravings by Francesco Griselini]. Venice: Bragadini for Isaac Foa, 1739.
Braginsky Collection (Zürich & Amsterdam)

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

Purification offering of the lepers (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 476, Tafel 273 (ZB III ZZ 55) Illustriert Lev 14,10
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 87 / emanuscripta

Iud., cap. XVI, v. 29.30, Ultima Roboris Samsonici (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome quatrieme, tab. CCCLXXXVII

Samson's Death (1549)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Verwerfliche Opfer (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 500, plate 282 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 22,22-24
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 93 / emanuscripta

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1692)
from: Ze'enah u-Re'enah
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, A. Hebr. 106, fol. 15v

Scene of Jewish offering (1470)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Sacrifice of Noah, after the Deluge (1551-1660)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

The Sacrifice of Isaac (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Exodi, Cap. XXVII, v. 1-8, Ara Holocausti secundum Lundium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome second, tab. CXCI

The Death of Samson [1650]
Getty Center, Museum East Pavilion, Los Angeles

Cain murdering Abel (1576)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sacrifice of Isaac (1630)
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

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

Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines (XVII)
Venezia, Museo Correr ( cl.III 1443)

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1695 - 1696]
Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Sacrifice of Isaac (15th)
from: Marco Polo, Livre des merveilles ; Odoric de Pordenone, Itinerarium de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum, traduit en français par Jean le Long ; Guillaume de Boldensele,Liber de quibusdam ultramarinis partibus et praecipue de Terra sancta, traduit en français par Jean Le Long et Lettres adressées au pape et réponse de Benoît XII, traduit en français par Jean Le Long ; De l’estat et du gouvernement du grant Kaan de Cathay, empereur des Tartares, traduit en français par Jean Le Long ; Jean de Mandeville, Voyages; Hayton, Fleur des estoires de la terre d’Orient ; Riccoldo da Monte di Croce,Liber peregrinationis, traduit en français par Jean Le Long (France)
Paris, BnF, Français 2810, fol. 167

The Circumcision of Christ (1620-1626)
from: France. Series: Vita Deiparae Virginis Mariae

Sacrifice of Gideon [1728]
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Sacrifice of Abel
from: Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 36H3

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

Sacrifice of a Lamb (14th)
from: Saint Augustin, La Cité de Dieu, traduite en français par Raoul de Presles, livres I-X
Paris, BnF, Français 20, fol. 253

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1598)
Piasecka-Johnson Collection, Princeton

The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1675)
Royal Collection Trust

The Sacrifice of Isaac (sec. XIII-XIV)
Torri in Sabina, S. Maria in Vescovio

Levitici, Cap. I, v. 2.3, Sacrificia ex Mundis (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXIII

The Philistines cut off Saul's head to offer it to their God (16th Century)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

The Offering of Noah (1640)
El Paso Museum of Art

The sacrifice of Isaac (1311)
from: Gospels, Armenia
Harvard University, Biblioteca Berenson, 9511282

The Sacrifice of Abraham [1630 - 1635]
Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Städel Museum), Frankfurt

Samson's Death (1646)
from: Sichem, Christoffel van, de Jonge; B. Blens; J. Klooster, Bybels lusthof, ofte Twee hondert en veertig, zoo historien als leeringen des Bybels; uyt het Oude- en Nieuwe Testament, met de scriftuurplaatsen daar toe dienendeBybels lusthof, ofte Twee hondert en veertig, zoo historien als leeringen des Bybels; uyt het Oude- en Nieuwe Testament, met de scriftuurplaatsen daar toe dienende, Jan Klooster, Amsterdam 1740, p. 69 [It appears also in: Christoffel van Sichem, Bibels Tresoor ofte der zielen lusthof. Amsterdam, P.J. Paets, 1646]

A sheaf from the first harvest is offered on the altar (1731)
from: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Physica Sacra, 1731, Abtheilung 2, nach S. 502, Tafel 283 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 23,10
Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 94 / emanuscripta

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1551)
Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

Exodi, Cap. XXIX, v. 13-22, Deo ex Ariete Sacra (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCV

Sacrificio de Isaac (18th Century)
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos (Museu de Belles Arts), Valencia, Spain

Elijah's Sacrifice (1863)
Bury Art Museum

Joachim's sacrifice is rejected (1500-1527)
Albertina, Vienna

The Circumcision of Christ (1600-1610)
from: Netherland. Series: The early life of Christ
British Museum, London

Title page of Mizbeah olah, seu de ara exteriore templi secundi exercitationes philologicae (1697)
from: Cramer, Johannes-Jacobus,

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.

The sacrifice of Abraham (1655)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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. Isaac carries the wood to Moriah [1415]
from: Provinzialbibliothek - Speculum humanae salvationis, 2 Ms. 46, fol. 55v
Provinzialbibliothek, Amberg

Samson pulling down the house at Gaza (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 35v
British Museum, London

Levitici, Cap. XIII, v. 47 ad fin., Lepra vestium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXXI

The Angel Departing from Manoah and His Wife (Victima per Manuen, domino mactatur optima: Vxor) (1584)
from: The Story of Samson, Hand-colored engravings (Netherlands)
Harvard Art Museum

Scapegoat sent to the wilderness where five wild beasts are waiting to devour it, and secondly the sacrifice of an ox (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 23v
British Museum, London

The Sacrifice of Isaac (calco ottocentesco della formella originale) (1421)
from: Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

The sacrifice of Abel (1525)
from: Castel Durante, Italy
The State Ermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

The sacrifice of Isaac (Bild des Stark-Gläubigen) (1720)
from: Winterthur
Universitätsbibliothek Zürich

Gen. Cap. XXII, v. 10-13, Aquila liberat Helenam sacrificio (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome premier, tab. LXXXIII

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Museo Ginori, Sesto Fiorentino

The Sacrifice of Isaac. Abraham and Isaac approach the place of sacrifice [1370]
from: Speculum humanae salvationis, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Lat. 511, fol. 22v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1822)
from: Modello in gesso per metope del Tempio della Trinità di Possagno
Venezia, Gallerie dell'Accademia

Napkin with the Sacrifice of Isaac (1600 - 1625)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Relief of Samson destroying the Temple (XVI)
Venice, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Sala Capitolare, portale dello scalone

David Sacralized King by Samuel (1647(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Sacrifice of Gideon (1400-1410)
from: Ems, Rudolf von, Weltchronik [Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 129v
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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

Animal Sacrifice and Pouring out the victim's blood (1491)
from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 24r
British Museum, London

Abraham (1907)
London, Christie's

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1480-1490)
from: Vita Christi [Getty Museum, Ms. 101, fol. 11, England]
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Binding of Isaac (245)
from: Fresco in a mid-third Century Dura Europos Synagogue
Damascus National Museum

Noah offering a sacrifice to God after the Flood (1675)
from: Athanasius Kircher, Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta, Amsterdam 1683, p. 166

The Sacrifice of Isaac
Christie's, London

Samson destroys the temple (1270-1274)
from: Psautier dit de saint Louis
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Latin 10525, fol. 62

Sacrifice of Isaac [1650 - 1651]
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna

The sacrifice of Samuel at Masfa and the flight of the Philistines [1650]
from: France
Istituto d'Arte Duccio di Boninsegna

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1524 - 1546)
Casa Buonarroti, Florence

Sacrifice of Noah [1508 - 1510]
Sistine Chapel, vault, Vatican

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1275–1324)
from: Haggadah for Passover according to Spanish rite (the 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah') Created: 1275–1324, Castile, Spain Hebrew
London, British Library, ms Orriental 2737

The Sacrifice of Isaac (17th)
from: Project on engraved sources of Spanish colonial art
Iglesia de San Martín, Potosí, Bolivia

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

Roundel with Martyrdom of Saint Jacobus Intercisus [1520]
The Met Cloisters, New York

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1212-1220)
from: Psalter, Oxford, MS M.43 fol. 11r
Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Shepherd sacrificing Ram
from: Book of Meshal Ha-Kadmoni (from Germany)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107), fol. 24

Allegory of the Old and New Testaments and the Church triumphing over the Synagogue (1523)
from: Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti
Ferrara, Pinacoteca

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1309)
from: Brussels Pentateuch, Brussels, 1309
(Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Codex Levy 19, f. 34v

Asservere Dei cultum miracula missa, Heliae manibus turba prophana cadit (1585)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Martyrdom of Saint Simon the Apostle (1493)
from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 107v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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.

Sacrifice of Jephthah (1461)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Belgium)
Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 245, fol. 125

The Sacrifice of Isaac [1581]
from: Ishâq al-Nishâpûrî, Histoire du Coran ou Histoires des prophètes et des rois du passé. Qesas al-anbiyâ [Persan 54, fol. 32v]
Paris, BnF, ms Persan 54 fol. 32v