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

Beatrizet, Nicolas

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1553)

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: Animal Sacrifice FirstbornsIphigeniaSacrifice for the NationWomen

Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Christie's, London

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 IsaacIranIsaacIslam

Vaughan, Robert

Pantheon sive Idola Judeorum [1650]

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: BaalJewish StudiesMolochSukkot

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)

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Christ's SacrificeFireJewish StudiesMassPagan SacrificeSacrifice Compared

Unknown

Sacrificial Fire, from the 'Tula Ram' Bhagavata Purana (c. 1720)

from: Western India, Gujarat, Surat

The Cleveland Museum of Art (Gift of John D. Proctor)

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaPurana

Unknown

Ibrâhîm [Abraham] holding a knife is about to sacrifice his son Ismâ'îl (Ishmael) who kneels before him (1580)

from: Qisas al-Anbiyâ [Qazvin?]

The New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Persian MS. 46

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 IsaacAngelHuman SacrificeIconographyIranIsaacIshmaelIslamKnifeManuscriptPersiaRamSafavid

Pittoni, Giovanni Battista

The sacrifice of Polyxena [1732 - 1733]

Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Malibù

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksPolyxenaWomen

Robert Melville Grindlay

Preparation for a Suttee (1816)

British Library, London (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

Pittoni, Giambattista il Giovane

The Sacrifice of Polixena at the Tomb of Achilles [1735]

The Walter Art Museum, Baltimore

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksHuman SacrificesPaintingsPolyxena

Delaune, Étienne

L'Autel du Sacrifice, Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (1550-1560)

from: France

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesAnimal Sacrifice FireOrnament Prints

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Torn Apart by Beasts (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. 143

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Unknown

Deities and Demons Performing the Yajna Sacrifice from the Devi Mahatmya (18th)

from: India, Rajput

Princeton University Art Museum

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaManuscriptVedicYajna

Unknown Indian Artist

Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice (1800-1900)

London, Wellcome Collection

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaVedicWomen

[Schley, Jacobus van der]

Human Sacrifice to Vitzilipuztli (1745)

from: Prévost, Antoine François, Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues, Paris, Didot, 1754, vol. 12, p. after 544

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesMesoamericaMexicoNative AmericansVitzilipuztli

De Jode, Gerard

The Sacrifice of Abel (1576)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

Keywords: Abel and CainBible, Old TestamentEngravingsFire

Anonymous / Unknown

Chandrahasa Sacrifice, made by Qabil (1598)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: BloodFireHinduHuman SacrificesIndia

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 12 (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. 24

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Mantegna, Andrea

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1490 - 1495)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien

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 IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentFireIsaac

Anonymous / Unknown

A Gentoo Woman Burning herself (1768)

from: Cavendish Drake, E. A, Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, London, J. Cooke, 1768

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

Goya, Francisco de

Sacrifice to Vesta (1771)

Colección Félix Palacios Remondo, Zaragoza (Spain)

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesIconographyPagan SacrificeSacrificial Objects

Guerra, Giovanni

martyrs at hard labour (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. 157

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

Tempesta, Antonio (Atelier of)

A doctor sacrificing a rooster to Aesculapius [1540-1619]

Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice AsclepiusDrawingRooster

Unknown

Suttee. Gouache painting by an Indian artist (s.d.)

from: India

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: FireIndiaSatiSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Unknown

Valmiki instructs Kusha and Lava in the recitation of the "Ramayana" before the occasion of a sacrifice in Rama's palace (1597-1605)

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

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

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

Keywords: HinduIndiaMughalRamayana

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Rite in front an Idol (1577)

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

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

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodCross-Cultural EncountersFireMexico

[Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco]

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17^th Century)

Royal Collection Trust, London

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

Keywords: DrawingFirstbornsIphigeniaSacrifice for the NationWomen

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Religious practices of the native Americans of Peru. Priests sacrifice animals on a bonfire, throw rocks with serpents or snakes and animals painted on them, and eviscerate animals. (1671)

from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 309

John Carter Brown Library

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireNative AmericansPeru

Leonhard von Brixen-Umkreis

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1475-1485)

from: Wandmalereien Filialkirche St. Nikolaus, Klerant

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacFresco

Guerra, Giovanni

Tortures and Infamy of the 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. 15

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Moses, an animal sacrifice on the altar and a ring of fire (1651-1725)

Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

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 BibleJewish StudiesSacrifice Compared

Unknown

Tumi (knife) with a talon (1400-1530)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Inca EmpireKnife

Vecelio, Tiziano

Jacopo Pesaro Being Presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter [1511 - 1513]

Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansChurch HistoryItalyPaintingsRome

Doré, Gustave

Le sacrifice humain allait s'accomplir (1857)

BnF, Gallica

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

Keywords: FranceHuman Sacrifice

Carracci, Agostino

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

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice ArgonautsPagan SacrificePolitical Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Jews put to the flames (1475)

from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 11v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

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 SacrificesJewish StudiesSimon of Trent

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Heretic Jewish at the Stake (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 230v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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

Keywords: EngravingsFireHeresyJewish Studies

Anonymous / Unknown

A mountain city with multistoried hill architecture. Outside the gates on the right is a Saivite shrine with a lingum covered by floral offerings to which a goat is led, probably for sacrifice. (17th)

from: Unidentified Hindu chronicle of a King

Metropolitan Museum, New York

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice GoatIndiaIslamMughalPaintings

Guerra, Giovanni

Quartering of a Martyr (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. 55

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Unknown

The divine messenger (Agnipurusha) rises from the sacrificial fire to bear vessel of celestial food by Nadim (1597- 1605)

from: The Ramayana

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

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaMughalRamayanaVedic

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

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice BullCalfFirePagan Sacrifice

[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

Zainer, Johann

Neoptolemus Sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's Tomb (1473)

from: Boccaccio, G. De mulieribus claris, translator Heinrich Steinhöwel, Ulm, Johannes Zainer, [1474], n. p.

Penn Library, Wolverhampton

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

Keywords: AchillesAncient GreeksPolyxena

Martyrdom of Saint Simonino

Saint Simon of Trent holding the flag and a shield; standing on the body of a male figure; in a border with flowers on black ground; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511 (1511)

from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511

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

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Kusi Yupanqui (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°.

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

Keywords: Indigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish EmpireViolence

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

Leu, Thomas de

Ino and Palemon [1615]

from: Iaspar Isaac Gaultier ; Thomas de Leu, Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux philostrates sophistes grecs et les statues de Callistrate mis en francois par Blaise de Vigenere bourbonnois enrichis d'arguments et annotations reueus et corrigez sur l'original par un docte personnage de ce temps en la langue grecque et representez en taille douce en cette nouuelle edition auec des epigrammes sur chacun diceux par Artus Thomas sieur d'Embry [...], Paris, Abel l'Angelier, 1615

Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

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

Keywords: Ancient Greeks

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 6 (16^th Century)

from: ms. Laud Misc. 678

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

Anonymous / Unknown

Tecpatl [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia, c. 18r

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Merisi, Michelangelo da Caravaggio

Beheading of St. John the Baptist (1608)

St. John's Malta Co-Cathedral (La Valletta, Malta)

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

Keywords: Bible, New TestamentBloodChristian HistoryEarly ChristianityMartyrdom

Pfeffel, Johann Andreas

Exodi, Cap. XXVII, v. 1-8, Ara pacis Romana (1732 - 1737)

from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome second, tab. CXCVI

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansBible, Old TestamentBible, PentateuchSacrificial Objects

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Himmelfeuer (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 384, Tafel 227 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 10,2

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 67 / emanuscripta

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

Keywords: BibleFire

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 80r, Rome

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Coecke van Aelst, Pieter

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1529-1530)

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksBarnabasLystraPagan SacrificeSaint Paul

Unknown

Sati Stone (18th)

from: India: Madhya Pradesh (State): Vidisha

London, British Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneWomen

Unknown

Sati Stone (s.d.)

from: Rajasthan, India

London, British Museum

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

Keywords: GenderHinduIndiaSatiSatīSati-stoneSelf-SacrificeWomen

Heemskerck, Maarten van - Volckertz Coornhert, Dirck

The Triumph of Isaac (1559)

from: Antwerp

Herzog August Bibliothek, Braunschweig

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice CamelFireIsaacRam

Guerra, Giovanni

Ways in which Martyrs were Drowned (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. 151

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Scene of a sati. In the foreground, a widowed woman (encountered by Della Valle on November 12, 1623) on horseback holds a mirror and a lemon amidst a crowd. In the background, a woman throws herself into the flames of a funeral pyre (1665)

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. 5, pag. 163

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

Keywords: FireIndiaSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Meister der Einsammlung des Manna

The offering of the Jews

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Jewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsLamb

Raimondi, Marcantonio

Saint Cecilia Martyrdom [1520 - 1525]

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XIV.114.107)

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansEngravingsRomeSaintsWomen Martyrs

Allori, Alessandro

I diecimila martiri del monte Ararat (1574)

from: Fondazione Federico Zeri

Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Firenze

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

Keywords: AltarpieceMartyrdomTen thousand martyrs

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Ritual with Human Linbs [1501 - 1525]

from: Codex Borbonicus

Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Moloch (1652 - 1654)

from: Athanasius Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, V. Mascardi, Roma,1652-1654

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

Keywords: EngravingsFireHuman SacrificesMoloch

Bronzino, Agnolo

Pygmalion and Galatea (1529-1530)

from: Italy

Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice CalfFireFlorenceItalyPagan Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Isaac (verso of a parcel-gilt silver and enamel Torah shield, signed and dated in Hebrew by Elimelech Tzoref in 1782) (1782)

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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 IsaacIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesRam

Anonymous / Unknown

Vedova indiana che si abbrucia (1816)

from: Ferrario, G. Il costumo antico e moderno, Florence, c.1816

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

Unknown

The Martyrdom of Zakarîyâ (Zacharias), the father of John the Baptist, who is killed when the tree in which he is hiding is sawn in two (c. 1580)

from: Nīsābūrī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, Qisas al-Anbiyâ [Qazvin?]

The New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Persian MS. 46, fol. 144

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

Keywords: BibleHuman SacrificeIranIslamManuscriptMartyrdomPersiaQur'anZakarîyâ (Zacharias)

Anonymous / Unknown

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

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 87r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodFireMexico

Unknown

A Sacrifice, full-page miniature [Italy, c.1540] (1540)

from: Italy

Sotheby's

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ItalyManuscript

Anonymous / Unknown

Diana en Iphigenia (17^th Century)

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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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

Zorn, Peter

Ritual Sacrifice of a Calf (1712)

from: Theophili Amilii... Erörterung der dunckelsten und schwersten Schrifft-Stellen im N. Testament, Franckfurt, Samuel Heyl, 1712

Wikimedia & google books

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 BibleJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKnife

Sun'i

The sacrifice of Isaac. The Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) surviving the furnace (above), and preparing to sacrifice his son Ism'il (below), from The Cream of Histories (Zubdat al-tawarikh) by Sayyid Luqman-i 'Ashuri (1585)

from: Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, Istanbul, Turkey

Sayyid Luqman-i Ashur, Zubdat al-tawarikh, detached folio, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

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 IsaacHuman SacrificesIsaacIslamManuscriptOttoman Empire

Unknown

Israel: sacrifice of a red heifer (Vue du camp d'Israel et de la cérémonie du sacrifice de la vache rousse). Coloured etching (1760 -1792)

from: A Paris : chez Mondhare

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

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

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)

Moses dal Castellazzo (after) 1467–1527

Sacrifice of Isaac ( Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts)

from: Warsaw picture Bible, Cod. 1164, fol. 26 (from Venice)

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (JHI)

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

Keywords: AbrahamBibleIsaacJewish StudiesJews

[Vasters, Reinhold ]

[1850]

from: Germany

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: circumcisionJewish StudiesKnife

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Heilige Himmelsfeuer (1731)

from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol 2, p. 382, Tafel 226 (ZB III ZZ 55)Illustriert Lev 9,24

Zürich, ZB, Graphische Sammlung, Füssli J.M. Phys. Sac. ZEI 66 / emanuscripta

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

Keywords: BibleDrawingFire

Woeiriot de Bouzey, Pierre

The Phalaris bull (16^th Century)

Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksBull of PhalarisTortures

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael 1434-1519

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

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 Bible, Old TestamentBloodFireJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesWoodcut

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Prince Chandrahasa and a Goddess (1598)

from: Razmnama

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndiaWomen

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael 1434-1519

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

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 Bible, Old TestamentJewish StudiesMishnahoxRamScapegoat

Unknown

Jewish sacrificing children to demons (IX^th Century)

from: Psalterium, Constantinople / Istanbul

Paris, BnF, Grec. 20, fol. 18

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

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeJewish StudiesManuscriptPsalms

Woollett, William

A Human Sacrifice, in a Morai, in Otaheite (1785)

from: Cook, James - King, James (1785) Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery , in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. In three volumes. and a fourth folio volume with engravings, known as Atlas

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: EngravingsHuman SacrificesPacific OceanTahiti

Regnard, Valérian

The Circumcision of Christ (1620-1626)

from: France. Series: Vita Deiparae Virginis Mariae

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

Keywords: Christcircumcision

Anonymous / Unknown

Ritual Human Sacrifice [1526 - 1550]

from: Codex Magliabecchiano, c. 70r

Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, Florence

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodHuman SacrificesMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Abraham and the Binding of Ishmael (17^th Century)

Haft Tanan (Seven Tombs) Mausoleum, Shiraz

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 relationsFrescosJewish Sacrifice

Aldrovandi, Ulisse

Sacrificial Knife (1648)

from: Aldrovandi, Ulisse, Musaeum metallicum, Bologna, 1648, p. 156

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

Keywords: AmericasAztecsHuman SacrificesKnifeMesoamerica

Duran, Diego de

Transport of the Sacrificial Stone (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 189v

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

Keywords: AztecsMexico

Bossche, Aert van den

Augustine Sacrificing to an Idol of the Manichaeans [1480]

from: Brussels

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice ManicaeansPaintingsSaint Augustin

Duran, Diego de

Dedication of a New Temple to Coatl God (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 170v

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AztecsBloodMexico

Anonymous / Unknown

Cerimonial mantle depicting human figures with feline mouth masks holding severed heads (Early Nasca 100 BC-AD 100)

from: Peru

Museo de Arte de Lima

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

Keywords: Human SacrificeNative AmericansPeru

Anonymous / Unknown

Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trient

Church of St Maria Rotonda. Pian Camuno, Val Camonica

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

Anonymous / Unknown

An Aztec God in front a Table with Human Body [1476 - 1500]

from: Codex Borgia

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican

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

Keywords: AztecsBloodMexico

[Pomarancio], Circignani, Niccolò

First Christian Martyrs 13 (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. 27

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

Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Anonymous / Unknown

Giant snake eats a lion while a man is attacked by beasts with sharp teeth. Includes the bodies of other victims or sacrifices. Description of a temple in the Yucatan discovered by Francisco Fernandez de Córdoba and Cristobal Morantes. The temple is described as being a theater of marble with huge figures carved on the top. People were daily executed within the bars and their bodies thrown down on the ground below (1671)

from: Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671, p. 73

John Carter Brown Library

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesMexicoNative Americans