Topic: 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery

[Borstius, Jacob & Gerard]

Tite page from: Willem Surenhuys (ed), Mischna sive totius hebraeorum juris, rituum, antiquitatum, ac legum oralium sytema, cum clarissimorum rabbinorum Maimonidis & Bartenorae commentariis integris, Amsterdam, 1698-1703, vol. 5 (1702)

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismFireJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesMaimonidesMishnahRitual SlaughteringTemple

Carracci, Agostino

The sacrifice of the black Bull (1584)

Palazzo Fava, Bologna

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice BullFrescosPagan Sacrifice

Riccio, Andrea

Allegory of Triumph and Sacrifice [1520]

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice

Duran, Diego de

Aztec Human Sacrifice (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 75r

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

Guissmann, Balthasar

The Sacrifice of Isaac (ivory group) (1679)

from: South Germany

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacGermany

Unknown

Sati (suttee): a woman immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist. (1800-1899)

from: India

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: Estado da ÍndiaFireIndiaSatiSatīWomen

Virtue, James S.

A Suttee (1858)

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Tumi, Ritual Knife (900–1100)

from: Peru, North Coast

Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

Keywords: GoldKnifeLambayeque (Sicán)Native AmericansPeru

[Italian]

Persons Bringing Sacrifices to Hercules [1526 - 1550]

British Museum (Dep. of Prints and Drawings), London

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksEngravings

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Killed in Boiling Water (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 80

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Dasaratha and his wives perform sacrifices so that they may be blessed with sons.Inscribed on the reverse: ‘Dasaratha Rajah performs Putrakamesti (or sacrifice in desire of sons) (ca 1900)

from: Add MS Or 521

British Library, London

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

Keywords: IndiaWomen

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Tortured with Ropes and Crushed with a Press (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 31

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Unknown

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HaggadahJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKnifeLambRitual Slaughtering

Vera Estaca, Alejo

Numancia (1880 - 1881)

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Ancient RomansMassacresSelf-Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Scenes from Daily Life of the Aztecs (1553)

from: Mendoza Codex

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesNative Americans

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

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 9 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 13

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 11 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 18

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Thrown into the Ravine or into the Fire (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 149

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Luyken, Jan

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HebrewsHolocaustsIsrael

Avraham ben Yaakov Ha-Levi from Ahrweiler Yosef ben Elazar from Mainz

The Sacrifice of Isaac

from: Germany

Frankfurt Stadtbibliothek, Ms. Hebr. Oct. 31, fol. 21v

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBibleBindingGermanyIsaacJewish StudiesJewsManuscript

Unknown

Sacrificial Knife (Indonesia, West Java, Koetjang)

from: Indonesia, West Java, Koetjang

Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde

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

Keywords: KnifeSouth East AsiaSoutheast Asia

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

Unknown

Sati Stone (18-19th)

from: Madhya Pradesh, India

Jahangir Mahal Museum

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: GenderHinduSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

Pieter Jalhea Furnius - Gerard van Groeningen 1545-1625

The sacrifice at the altar of Apollo (1571)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice

Unknown

Sati Stone (18th)

from: Madhya Pradesh, Orchha, India

Jahangir Mahal Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneWomen

Unknown Indian Artist

Lord Ganesh and Skanda (?) sit across a sacrificial fire, with a long flame coming out of a pink pot watched by seventeen other deities. [1800-1899]

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedic

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyr Bound to a Wheel and Thrown off a Cliff (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 27

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of an Aztec [1562]

from: Codex Telleriano - Remensis

Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

Scultori, Adamo

Sacrifice of a Pig [1547 - 1587]

RISD Museum, Providence

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsFire

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael

Offering of the first-born in the Temple (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 26r

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentChild SacrificeFirstbornsGermanyHuman SacrificeJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesTempleWoodcut

Unknown

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Jewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsRam

Unknown

Two boys preparing to sacrifice a young buffalo, Vārānasi , India (1920)

Yale University Library

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IndiaKnifePhotograph

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

Unknown

Sati Stone (18th)

from: Madhya Pradesh, Orchha, India

Jahangir Mahal Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatīSatiWomen

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1430)

from: Ms Hazine 2153, fol. 119

Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Museum, Hazine 2153, fol. 119

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelIconographyIranIshmaelIslamManuscriptPersiaRamSacrifice ComparedTimurid

Griselini, Francesco - Calimani, Simon

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)

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 IsaacBibleBindingFrontispiceIsaacJewish Studies

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham sacrificing his Son Ishmael and Abraham cast into Fire by Nimrod (1583)

from: ms. Zubdat-al Tawarikh

Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istambul

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

Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentChristian-Islamic relations

Callot, Jacques

Culte du Démon (The Cult of the Demon), from Les Sacrifices (The Sacrifices) (1625-1627)

from: http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42582956v

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Topics:
0. General bibliography (19^th-21^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Anonymous / Unknown

Vizlipuztli Idolum Mexicanorum (Huitzilopochtli Mexican Deity) (1671)

from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexicoNative Americans

Anonymous / Unknown

Candrahasa sacrifices himself cutting off pieces of his own flesh and putting them on the fire [1598]

from: Razmnāmah by Abhinanda, India (The last volume of the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned in 990 by Akbar)

London, British Library, Or 12076 folio: 90v

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaIslamMughalPersiaSafavidSelf-Sacrifice

Wogelmut, W. - Pleydenwurff, W.

Martyrium des Simon von Trent, Darstellung aus der Nürnberger Weltchronik von Hartmann Schedel - Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent, depiction from the Nuremberg World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. (1493)

from: Hartmann Schedel, Nürnberger Weltchronik

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

Boucher, François

Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18^th Century)

Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePolitical SacrificeSelf-Sacrifice

Giani, Felice

Ancient Sacrifice and Head of a Satyr (?^th Century)

National Gallery of Art, Washington

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient Sacrifices

[Italian]

Sacrifice to Minerva (16^th Century)

from: [Pliny the Elder], Gaius Plinius Secundus. Naturalis Historia, n. p., n. p., 16c., book XXXVI, n. p.

Public Library, New York

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesCapital LetterItaly

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Tortured and Hung by the Thumbs and a Foot (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 17

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Lund, Johann

The Idol Moloch with Seven Chambers or Chapels (1711)

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsIdolatryMolochPagan Sacrifice

Guerra, Giovanni

Bound and Beaten Martyrs (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 59

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Roundel with Sacrifice in the Temple [1515 -1525]

The Met Cloisters, New York

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Medieval Chronicles

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of Jephthah [1350 - 1400]

from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Bologna) [Arsenal, Ms 593, fol. 7v]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: BibleJephthahManuscript

Picart, Bernard

Manner in which they Bury Themselves (1728)

from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728

London, Wellcome Collection

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeSatiSatīWomen

Martyn, William Frederick

A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)

from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeWomen

Anonymous / Unknown

Brahmin undergoing the test of fire after prolonged penance and yoga practices; Yogi dragging heavy iron chains; and a man tied to a tree who has chosen to embrace death (1670)

from: Abraham Rogerius, Le Théâtre de l’idolatrie ou la porte ouverte, Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, p. 252

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

Keywords: FireIndiaSelf-Sacrifice

[Romano], Pippi, Giulio

Sacrifice to Jupiter [1501 - 1525]

Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice Drawing

Anonymous / Unknown

Humans Sacrificed in the Fire and on the Pyramid [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 40r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman sacrificeMexico

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1627)

from: Sefer Evronot Manuscript (from Frankfurt am Main)

Hebrew Union College Library, ms. 901, fol. 32v

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

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBindingHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsKnifeManuscript

Picart, Bernard

A Portugese Jewish circumcision ceremony (1714)

from: Picart, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

Wellcome Collection, London

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

Keywords: ChildrencircumcisionJewish StudiesSacrifice Compared

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

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

Rubens, Pieter Paul

Mars and Rhea Silvia [1617]

Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansFirePaintings

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

Unknown

Tumi (cerimonial copper knife) (15th)

from: Peru

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnifePeru

Anonymous / Unknown

Diana en Iphigenia (17^th Century)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsIphigeniaSacrifice for the NationWomen

[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

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPolyxena

Unknown

Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]

Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

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

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ManuscriptPagan Sacrifice

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

Lairesse, Gérard de

The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1667)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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

Keywords: AchillesPolyxenaSacrifice for the NationWarWomen

Unknown

Martyrdom of the prophet Zakarīyā (Zechariah) (XVI)

from: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A fol. 3

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

Keywords: BibleIranIslamMartyrdomPersiaQur'an

Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb (1539)

from: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Paris 1539 (Denys Janot), Vol. 3, p. 150

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificeFranceGenderManuscriptPolyxenaWomen

Unknown

Hanuman and the monkeys assault the demons, forcing Indrajita to break off the sacrifice that would make him invincible (1597-1605)

from: The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 2

National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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Keywords: IndiaMughalRamayana

Anonymous / Unknown

An illustration from the Ramayana. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa protect the rishis' sacrificial fire from the rakṣasas (demons) (1800-1805)

from: This is from a series of eighty-four paintings on European paper and was once stored in a folder labelled: 'Ramayana Subjects, Deccani School: 1800-1805 (on European paper)'.

British Museum, London

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Keywords: IndiaRamayana

Unknown

Frontespiece of Pierre Jurieu, Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes, Amsterdam, 1704 (1704)

BnF, Gallica

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Keywords: AntiquarianismSacrifice Compared

Anonymous / Unknown

Different Sacrifices in front of a Dirty Pyramid of Blood [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 87r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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Keywords: AztecsBloodFireMexico

Hooghe, Romeyn de

the healers making an offering to an idol asking if it can cure the sick person. As atonement, a number of goats are slaughtered. In the process, the tent of the sick man is incensed. In the background is a thanksgiving feast at an idol. On the right image, a man (according to the text a Jesuit) is being shaved by a toll master in front of some Dutchmen. (1682)

from: Vries, Simon de. Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, deel 4, p. 664 en deel 3, p. 596. Utrecht: J. Ribbius, 1682

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismJesuitsOrientalismSacrifice Compared

Picart, Bernard

Sacrifice which the Floridians Make to the Sun (lower) (1723 - 1743)

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

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice EngravingsNative Americans

[Correggio], Allegri, Antonio

Sacrifice with Vesta (1518 - 1519)

Camera di San Paolo, Parma

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice FrescosItaly

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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Keywords: Pagan Sacrifice

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice with Harrows (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 88r, Rome

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Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Unknown

Pesah dorot (from the Birds’ Head Haggadah) (1300)

from: Birds’ Head Haggadah (Germany)

Israel Museum in Jerusalem

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HaggadahJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesLamb

Anonymous / Unknown

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

from: Codex Tudela

Museo de América, Madrid

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Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Guerra, Giovanni

Tortured Martyrs in Different Ways, 3 (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 121

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Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Guerra, Giovanni

Christians Buried Alive (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 147

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Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Unknown

Title page of Mizbeah olah, seu de ara exteriore templi secundi exercitationes philologicae (1697)

from: Cramer, Johannes-Jacobus,

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Keywords: FireJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

Beatrizet, Nicolas

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1553)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FirstbornsIphigeniaSacrifice for the NationWomen

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 5 (1585)

from: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista. Ecclesiae militantis triumphi sive Deo amabilium martyrum gloriosa pro Christi fide certamina ... in ecclesia S. Stephani Rotundi, Romae Nicolai Circiniani pictoris manu visuntur depicta [...], Romae, ex officina Bartholomaei Grassi, 1585, p. 5

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Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Anonymous / Unknown

Les femmes Indiennes se brulent (1725)

from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html

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Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeWomen

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Tortured with the Wheel, 2 (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 29

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Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Human Sacrifice (1577)

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

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

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Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersHuman SacrificesMexico

Pontormo [Jacopo Carucci] 1494-1557

Scene of a sacrifice [1545]

Museo Capodimonte, Napoli

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FirePantherRam

Unknown

Qābil (Cain) and the dead Hābil (Abel) (XVI)

from: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A fol. 3

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Keywords: AbelHuman SacrificeIranIslamManuscriptPersia

Unknown

Mass of St. Gregory (Aztec Amanteca, Mexican feather work)

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Keywords: EucharistMexico

Heumann, Georg Daniel

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

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleExodusFireJewish SacrificeRam

Fuchs, J.

Human sacrifice among the Khonds in India: a victim (meriah) about to be dismembered (1860)

London, Wellcome Collection

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Keywords: Human SacrificeIndia

Unknown

Ancient ritual sacrifice depicting a boar, a bull and a ram (suovetaurilia) being brought towards the altar at right, after a Roman relief from the Julio-Claudian era (1544-1577)

from: Series: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, published in Rome

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice Suovetaurilia

Jakob ben Shneur

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1348)

from: Mahzor

Darmstadt | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Cod. Or 13, fol. 202

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Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacBibleHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsKnifeRam

Guerra, Giovanni

Hanged and Totured Martyrs (1591)

from: A. Gallonio, Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentilicontro christiani, trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, Roma, Donangeli 1591, n. 25

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Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Wolgemuth [Wolgemut], Michel 1434 - 1519

The Scapegoat Being Sent out into 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

Boston, Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice RamRitual SlaughteringScapegoatWoodcut

Anonymous / Unknown

Miniature llama figurine, wrought in hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering to the mountain gods, accompanying a human sacrifice (1500-1532)

from: Peru

The British Museum, London

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Human SacrificeInca EmpireNative AmericansPeru

[Pinturicchio], Bernardino di Betto (and workshop)

Sacrifice to Mercury (1502 - 1507)

Cathedral, Biblioteca Piccolomini, Siena

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice FrescosItalySacrificial Lamb