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

Nur Muhammad

The building for King Dasaratha's sacrifice (Mughal India) (1594)

from: Miniature (35.4 x 21cm), fol. 27r

Christie's, London

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

Keywords: Brahminical RitesIndiaManuscriptMughalVedic

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

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

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

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

[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

[Portuguese]

Indian Sacrifice by Behaeding (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, c. 86r, Rome

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIndia

Anonymous / Unknown

Femmes Benjanoises brulees (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

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

Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1814)

from: Lester. The Gallery of Nature and Art, 1814

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: FireIndiaSacrificeSatiSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

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

ha-Levi, Uri Phoebus ben Aaron

Tikkun Kriah le-Kol Leilah ve-Yom (Prayer Book) (1666)

The Center for Jewish Art

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireFrontispieceJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesTemple

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyrs Tortured and Dismembered (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. 91

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

The Ekahum ceremony, consisting of the release of a bull. A young bull stands in the courtyard of the deceased's house. His eldest son performs a sacrifice with rice, plantains and three brass pots of water decorated with mango leaves. The widow is dressed in her finest clothes and a feast is given to the Brahmins (ca 1820)

from: The Lives of the Brahmins [Ms Add.Or. 4354]

British Library, London

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

Keywords: India

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

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FirePagan Sacrifice

Chaperon, Nicolas

Sacrifice of Noah (1649)

from: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Nazionale; Pio; volume 8F.PIO

Istituto Centrale per la Grafica

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleNoah

Anonymous / Unknown

The Funeral Pile of a Husband (1810)

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

The Sentinel in the Employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to Sacrifice his Son to the Ghost of the Shah’s Soul [1560]

from: Tales of a Parrot, [manuscript], [1560]

The Cleveland Museum of Arts, Cleveland

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

Keywords: Human SacrificesIslamic Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

The Sacrifice of Lystra (1750)

from: Great Britain

V&A 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: Ancient GreeksChinoiseriesFanLystra

Unknown

Four men worshipping at a fire altar and idol shrine (1650-1700)

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

Keywords: FireIdolatryIranIslamManuscriptPersiaSacrifice ComparedSafavidZoroastrianismZoroastrians

[Augsburg influenced by Hans Burgkmair]

Abraham and Isaac Holding Objects Alluding to the Sacrifice [1510]

Cathedral, St. Gertrud Chapel, altar, Augsburg

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, Old TestamentChurch HistorySacrificial ObjectsSaints

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

[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

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

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice RamRitual SlaughteringScapegoatWoodcut

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

Sadeler I, Jan (after Michiel Coxie I)

The sacrifice of Abel; Abel kneeling with his arms outstretched towards the firmament, offering sheep to the Lord on a burning altar (1576)

The British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AbelAbel and CainAgricoltureCainFireLamb

La Fosse, Charles de

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]

Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles

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

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

Bry, Johann-Theodor de

Tenochtitlan, human sacrifice on Templo Mayor.VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent (1602)

from: Jansz, Bernhardus - Bry, Theodor de. [Collectio peregrinationum in Indiam occidentalem] : 9 : Americæ Nona & postrema Pars. Qua de Ratione Elementorum: De Novi Orbis Natura: De Huius Incolarum Superstitiosis cultibus, Frankfurt, Bekerum, 1602, VIII. Qua ratione Indi Mexicani, mactatis hominibus sacrificent

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman SacrificesMexicoNative AmericansTenochtitlan

Goltzius, Hendrik 1558-1617

Lycaon Transformed into a Wolf (1589)

from: Metamorphoses by Ovid, book 1, plate 9

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksGreek mythologyHuman SacrificeLykaon

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

Stone medallion with the purported martyrdom scene of Simonino di Trento (18th)

Palazzo Salvadori, Trent

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

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Ritual Sacrifice to an Aztec God (1577)

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

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

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

Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersMexico

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)

[Mughal artist]

Ashwamedha Sacrifice (1598)

from: Razmnama Mughal

Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata

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

Keywords: FireHinduIndia

Gerard of Wales

An Irish ritual of kingship: the sacrifice of a white mare and preparation of a stew, in which the king bathes and which his supporters ea (ca 1196-1223)

British Library, London [ms Royal 13 B. VIII, fol. 28v]

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 IrelandKingshipManuscript

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

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Castigos de vírgenes (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° [fol. 308].

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

Keywords: IdolatryIndigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

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

Anonymous / Unknown

Suttee (1878)

from: Murray Smith, D. Round the World: A Story of Travel Compiled from the Narrative of Ida Pfeiffer, London, 1878

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

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

Steen, Jan

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1671)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksAnimal Sacrifice FireIphigeniaPaintings

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

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

Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab I. Pictura exhibens sacrificium solis. Tav. II Pictura Indica autographa exhibens holocaustum ignis (1791)

from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791

New York Public Library

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismBrahminical RitesFireHinduIndiaSacrifice ComparedVedic

Anonymous / Unknown

Vedic fire ritual (homa) as part of the Raja-suya sacrifice of Yudhisthira at his capital Indra-prastha. One of the Pandavas stands before the sacrificial fire and his attendants stand before the priests. (1670-1680)

from: Bilaspur

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: FireIndiaMahābhārata

Boyvin, René

The Sacrifice of the Golden Mountoun [1550]

Bibliothèque municipale, Bordeaux

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice ArgonautsBible, Old TestamentGolden FleeceHolocausts

Coltzius, Hendrick

Suovetaurilia, the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a sheep (ovis) and a bull (taurus) (1585-1588)

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice BullSuovetaurilia

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 4 (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

Guerra, Giovanni

Cutting out the Tongues, Extracting the Teeth and Cutting off the Breasts of 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. 125

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

De Ferrari, Gregorio

Episode of Roman History with Iustitia and Prudentia (1711(?))

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 RomansAnimal Sacrifice History of Ancient RomePolitical Sacrifice

Jakob ben Shneur

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1348)

from: Mahzor

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

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 IsaacBibleHuman SacrificeIsaacJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesJewsKnifeRam

Guerra, Giovanni

Martyr burnt on the Grill (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. 78

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

Keywords: Christian HistoryMartyrdomMartyrologyProtomartyrsSacrificial Objects

Anonymous / Unknown

Aztec Sacrifice 2 (1556)

from: ms. Arch. Selden. A. 2

Bodleian Library, Oxford

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

Keywords: AztecsHuman Sacrifices

[Veneziano, Agostino]

Sacrifice to Priapus (16^th Century)

Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (B.XIV.207.258)

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

Keywords: Ancient RomansAncient SacrificesEngravings

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

San Zoilo Mártir, Nobilísimo Cavallero Cordobés. (17-18^th Century)

from: Picture in anonymous devotional card

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

Keywords: Early ChristianityIconographyMartyrdomSaintsSpain

Carpaccio, Vittore

I diecimila crocifissi del monte Ararat (1515)

Venezia, Gallerie dell'Accademia

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

Keywords: MartyrdomMount AraratTen thousand martyrs

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of Codrus [1350 - 1400]

from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Bologna) [Arsenal, Ms 593, fol. 18v]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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

Keywords: Ancient GreeksCodrusManuscript

Unknown

Antiochus IV Epiphanes has the altar of sacrifice desecrated (1465)

from: Bible moralisée (Bruges)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, KB, 76 E 7

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

Keywords: BibleBible, 2 Maccabees

Unknown

The martyrdom of the prophet Zakariya, who, taking refuge in a tree, was sawn in half by two men. (1605 - 1610)

from: This album of 104 folios known as the Clive Album

London, V&A Museum

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

Keywords: Human SacrificeIndiaIslamManuscriptMartyrdomMughalZakarîyâ (Zacharias)

Heylan, Francisco

Discovery of the leaden books of Sacromonte (Granada) [1741]

from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.

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: Christian HistoryChristian-Islamic relationsGranadaMoriscosRelics

Anonymous / Unknown

a man sacrificing a fowl to one of the best known charms among the Akan, the nkabere charm. (18th-20th)

from: Ghana (The Kyekyere Nkabere charm (lit. to tie or bind the nkabere) was a common rite carried out throughout the Asante region during the pre-colonial and early colonial era).

British Museum, London

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

Keywords: AfricaAnimal Sacrifice

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

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

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

de Sahagún, Bernardino

Aztec Idol (1577)

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

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

Topics:
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Keywords: AztecsCross-Cultural EncountersIdolatryMexico

Fazuli

Ibrahim about to sacrifice Ismail. Cebrail (Gabriel) stands nearby holding the ram. (Late 16th/Early 17th)

from: A miniature painting from a manuscript of Hadikat us-suada, a history of the holy martyrs of the Prophet's family [Ms Or. 12009, fol.19v]

British Library, London [from Turkey]

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Keywords: Abraham and IsaacIranIslamPersia

Anonymous / Unknown

Rāma sends out his entire army, headed by Lakṣmaṇa and Vibhīṣaṇa, to fight Indrajit at the Nikumbhilā grove, where he is performing more magical sacrifices. Indrajit is sacrificing to the fire again with a black goat, while around him a furious battle is raging between Lakṣmaṇa and his allies and the other demons. Vibhīṣaṇa has advised Rāma to send Lakṣmaṇa to finish off Indrajit at the place where he is performing his magical arts, before he can make himself even more powerful. Inscribed above Indrajit: Iṃdrajit. (ca 1653)

from: Ramayana [ms Add. 15297(1), fol. 115]

British Library, London [from Udaipur]

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice GoatsIndia

Unknown

The sentinel in the employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to sacrifice his son to the ghost of the Shah’s soul (Mughal India, court of Akbar) (1560)

from: from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Second Night

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Keywords: Child SacrificeHuman SacrificeIndiaKingshipKnifeMughal

Anonymous / Unknown

Emperor Jahangir and Prince Khurram at the gathering for the Feast of the Sacrifice (1615-1625)

from: India

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst

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

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IndiaIslamKingshipMughal

Guissmann, Balthasar

The Sacrifice of Isaac (ivory group) (1679)

from: South Germany

V&A Museum, London

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

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacGermany

Putter, Coenraad de

The sacrifice of the Feast of Tabernacles (1746)

from: Histoire universelle, depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu’à présent, Volume 7, published Amsterdam: Arkstée et Merkus, 1742-1782.

Lowcountry Digital Library, College of Charleston Libraries

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

Keywords: FireJerusalemJewish StudiesSukkot

Unknown

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

from: Italy

Sotheby's

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Keywords: Ancient SacrificeAnimal Sacrifice ItalyManuscript

Altdorfer, Erhard

The Sacrifice of Abraham [1520]

Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: AbrahamBibleHuman SacrificesIsaac

Crispijn de Passe

Priesteressen doen voorspellingen aan de hand van ingewanden van geofferde mensen (Priestesses make divinations using entrails of sacrificed people) (1639)

Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen , inv./cat.nr Tu 121-3

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Keywords: Human Sacrifice

Riza-i-Abbasi, Aqa

Abraham's Sacrifice (1595)

from: Histoire du Coran ou Histoire des prophètes et des rois passés. Qisas al-anbiyyâ [Supplément Persan 1313, fol. 40]

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacIranIsaacIslamManuscriptPersiaQur'an

Duran, Diego de

Human Sacrifice for the Toci Goddess (1579)

from: Diego de Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, 1579, c. 181r

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Keywords: AztecsBloodFireHuman SacrificesMexico

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

[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

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Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsProtomartyrsRomeSaints

Scultori, Diana

A bull offered in sacrifice to Jupiter (16^th Century)

Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HolocaustsRoman mythology

Goya, Francisco de

Sacrifice to Vesta (1771)

Colección Félix Palacios Remondo, Zaragoza (Spain)

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

Keywords: Ancient SacrificesIconographyPagan SacrificeSacrificial Objects

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

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Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeHuman SacrificesSimon of Trent

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

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AztecsBloodMexico

Rentz, Michael Heinrich

The Triumph of Christ´s Sacrifice (1733 - 1735)

from: Rentz, H. Das christliche Jahr, oder, Die Episteln und Evangelien [...], Prag, Labaunischen Erben, 1733 - 1735

The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

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Keywords: Church HistoryEngravingsFrontispiece

Wohlgemut, Micheal

Martyrdom of Saint Simon the Apostle (1493)

from: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, c. 107v

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Rar. 287, Münich

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Keywords: Bible, Acts of the ApostlesBible, New TestamentEngravingsIdolatry

Pencz, Georg

Tobiolus makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice, from The Story of Tobias (1543)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Keywords: Bible, Old TestamentFireWomen

Pupini, Biagio

Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16^th Century)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Keywords: Ancient RomansAnimal Sacrifice FireHistory of Ancient RomePolitical Sacrifice

Biard, Pierre

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17^th Century)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksFirstbornsHuman SacrificesIphigeniaWomen

Heemskerck, Maarten van - Volckertz Coornhert, Dirck

The Triumph of Isaac (1559)

from: Antwerp

Herzog August Bibliothek, Braunschweig

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Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrificial Knife (12th)

from: China

Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Keywords: ChinaKnife

Anonymous / Unknown

Satī (17th)

from: Manuscript, Iran

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art

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Keywords: FireIranSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Pfeffel, Johann Andreas

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

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Keywords: Ancient GreeksBible, GenesisBible, Old TestamentBible, PentateuchSacrifice Compared

Anonymous / Unknown

Sati Funeral Practice (1611)

from: Johannes Isacius Pontanus, "Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia", Amsterdam, 1611, p. 189

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Keywords: FireIndiaSatīSelf-SacrificeWomen

Muhammad `Ali Naqqash Mashhadi

the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)

from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)

The Walters Art Museum

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Keywords: FireIndiaIranIslamMughalPersiaSatīSatiSelf-SacrificeWomen

Mantegna, Andrea

The Sacrifice of Isaac (1490 - 1495)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien

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Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAnimal Sacrifice Bible, Old TestamentFireIsaac

Anonymous / Unknown

Suttee Pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat (19th century)

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

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Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeWomen

[Boyvin, René]

King Eteez of Colchis takes Phryxus under his protection (16^th Century)

from: René Boyvin ; Léonard Thiry, Histoire de Jason et de la conquête de la Toison d'or, [Paris], [n.p.], [1563?]

Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon

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Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Greek mythologyHolocausts

Anonymous / Unknown

Native Americans [?] sacrifice children on an altar. Includes priests with knives who place the infants on a pyre. (1662)

from: Schultze, Gottfried, De nieuwe bereysde wereldt, Iohannes Tongerloo, La Hague, 1662, frontespiece

The John Carter Brown Library

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Keywords: Child SacrificeFireHuman SacrificesMexicoNative Americans

Anonymous / Unknown

Veuve indouve hallant (1825)

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

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Keywords: FireIndiaSacrificeWomen

[Lafitau, after De Bry] 1681-1746

Sacrifice des premiers nez chez les Floridiens, expliqué à la pag. 181. / Sacrifice de la dépoūille d'un cerf, à la Floride / Caraïbe offrant la Cassave et l'Ovicou, a un poteau érigé en titre ou symbole de la Divinité (Sacrifice of the firstborn by the Floridians. 2. Sacrifice of the stag in Florida. 3. A Carib offers cassava bread at a post symbolizing the deities) (1724)

from: Plate 7 in Lafitau, Moeurs des sauvages amériquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps, Paris, 1724

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Keywords: AmericasAnimal Sacrifice Child SacrificeDeerFloridaNative AmericansSacrifice Compared