Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery
Purported ritual murder - Blood libel (18th)
Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland
Execution of Charles the First (1649)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Allegory on the Jubilee of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748 (1748)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Thomas Morus quondam supremus totius Angliae cancellarius digniss (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Fox. The Historical Painter (1784)
British Museum, London
Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris
On doit à sa patrie le sacrifice de ses plus chères affections (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Fight between Horatii and Curiatii (1612 - 1613)
Musei capitolini, Sala degli Orazi, Rome
The Last Moment of King Charles the First (1838)
British Museum, London
King Jeroboam Making Sacrifice to the Golden Calf (17 - 18)
Staten Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Sacrifice of Jephtah’s Daughter (18th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
An Aztec Noble’s Sacrifice for his Country [1585]
from: Codex Ramírez or Tovar - Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España según sus Historias
John Carter Brown Library
King David Sacrifices to God and Sees the Angel of Death (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Stove Plate with a Sacrificing King David and the Prophet Gad (16-17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
David Sacrificing to God (16th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of King Oetes (16th Century)
from: Gohory, Jacques. Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Jason de Tessalie : faict par figures avec exposition d'icelles, [Paris], n.p., 1563, no page
Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris
Execution of Charles I [1680]
British Museum, London
The Dissolution of the Monastries and the Execution of Three Benedictine Abbots (1539)
from: https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item106122.html
The British Library, London
Stone medallion with the purported martyrdom scene of Simonino di Trento (18th)
Palazzo Salvadori, Trent
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)
National Gallery, London
Execution of Charles I (18th Century)
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)
Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent
Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
German broadsheet showing pilgrims visiting the relics of Simon, in a position known as victima. Bound with the account of Matthia Tiberino [description provided by Magda Teter] (1475)
from: Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, Rar. 338
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Sacrifice of Pélias to Neptune (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Idolatry of Jeroboam (1780)
from: Flavius Josephus. Alle de werken van Flavius Josephus, naar het Grieksch in 't Engelsch gebragt en verkort, waar by gevoegd is: de twee boeken van Josephus tegens Appion; zyn Richtsnor der Reden, of het martelaarschap der Macchabeen, en 't gezantschap van Philo den Jood aan den keizer Cajus Caligula. Uit het Engelsch in het Nederduitsch vertaald. Eerste deel, Amserdam, J. van Gulik, 1780, p. 300
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
King Charles the Martyr (1649)
from: Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, [London], s.n., 1548 [1649], Frontispiece
British Museum, London
Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
The Loyall Sacrifice (1648) (1760 - 1799)
The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London
Corruptibilem pro incorruptibile (1717)
British Museum, London
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17 - 18)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)
Museo provinciale Alto Adige
Spanish conquistadors discovering victims of human sacrifices among the Incas (?) [1790-1799]
London, Wellcome Collection
A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648 [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
The Death of Don Juan and the Humiliation of Alva, 1578 (1578)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
King Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols (1640(?))
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
A Ruler Performing Yajna (Fire Ritual) (1801 - 1900)
Islamic & Indian Paintings, The Dexter Collection Part II, London
Alva Murders the Innocent Inhabitants of the Netherlands (1572)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Hugh Latimer (17th Century)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd]
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The ritualistic murder of a Christian child by a group of Jewish men; the child standing at centre, surrounded by five figures who are restraining, cutting him and gathering his blood; in an ornament frame with Gothic Laubwerk along upper edge; 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
Bristih Museum
The Torture of Atilius Regulus [1542 - 1543]
British Museum, London
Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (1922)
New York, MoMA
Ifigenia Treuspel (1715)
from: Racine. Jean. Ifigenia in Aulis, treurspel, Amsterdam, Jacob Lescailje, 1715, Frontespiece
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The assassination of King Lazar (1577)
from: Türckische Chronica (Adelphus Johannes)
Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]
Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua
The Death of the King (18th Century)
British Museum, London
Simon on the altar (“victima”) (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 9v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Pagan Sacrifice of King Ahaz (1646)
from: Bibels tresoor, ofte der zielen lusthof, vytgebeelt in figueren, door verscheyden meesters. Ende gesneden, door Christoffel van Sichem, Amsterdam, P. I. Paets, 1646, p. 592
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Execution of Jews in Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 10v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Konincklick memoriael (1649)
from: Eikon Basilike. Konincklick memoriael. War in het innerlijk gemoet van sijne H. Mojesteyt Carolus Stuart Koninck van Engelandt, Schotlandt en Yrlandt, naer 't leven afgebeeldt wordt. In sijne gevanckenis en lijdsaemheyt by hem selver in 't Engelsch beschreven; en in Nederduytsch vertaelt, Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1640, Frontispice.
British Museum, London
Diana en Iphigenia (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Statue of the Duke of Alba, 1571 (1730)
from: Le Clerc, Jean. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden, sedert den aanvang van die Republyk tot op den vrede van Utrecht in 't jaar 1713 en het tractaat van Barriere in 't jaar 1715 gesloten. Verciert met d'afbeeldzels der voornaamste personaadjen, beruchste, gevallen, belegeringen van steden, veldslagen, en meer andere keurlyke printverbeeldingen, gesneden door den heer Picard Romein, en andere voorname meesters. In drie deelen in folio. In ‘t Fransch beschreven door den Heere Jean le Clerc. En nu in ‘t Nederduitsch vertaatl, Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1730, vol. 1, p. 54
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A king sacrifices an animal in front of the statue of Thor (1639)
RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Abscheulichste Unehörte Execution, an wehland dem Durchleuchtig- und Grossmächtigsten Carl Stuart, König in Gross Britannien, Franctreich und Irrland vorgangen in Londen vor der Residents Whithall, Dienstag den 30 Janua: 9 Februa: Anno 1640. Nachmittag zwischen 2 und 3 uhren [1649]
National Portrait Galllery, London
Martyrdom of St. John of Nepomuk (ca 1750)
National Museum,Warsaw
Charles I. Roi d'Angleterre décapité à Whitehall le 30e Janvier 1649 (1730)
from: Larrey, Isaac de. Geschiedenis van Engelandt, Schotlandt en Ierlandt; met een kort begrip der aanmerkelykste zaken, in andere ryken en staten voorgevallen. In het Fransch beschreven door den Heere De Larrey, Hof-en bezendings-raadt van zyne koninklyke majesteit van Pruissen. In het Nederduitsch uitgegeven, en uit de openbare gedenkschriften van Engelandt en de allernaauwkerigste oude en nieuwe schryvers merkelyk vermeerdert en verandert door Jan Lodewyk Schuer. Met heerlyke afbeeldselen en landkaarten versiert. Vieerde deel, Amsterdam, Joh. Covens en Corn. Mortier, 1730, vol. 4, p. 1
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona
A King Sacrificing (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1761(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A King Compelled to Offer a Sacrifice by Two Gorgonians (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Sacrifice of a Lamb by Four Men (1630(?))
from: Luther, Martin. Biblia das ist Die gantze Holy Scriptures Durch D. Martin Luther verutscht Strasbourg, Zetzner, [1630], Frontispiece
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Emblematic print referring to the execution of Charles I and the Stuart succession (1715)
British Museum, London
Patientia holds the 17 provinces together during the war, c. 1575 (1575(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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
The Death of Atilius Regulus (1662)
Galleria Trincia, Rome
K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
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
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
Cromwel. Viceregent (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Karel Stuard Koning van Groot Brittanien. Binnen Londen Onthalst den 13 van Januari 1649 (1698)
from: Bos, Lambert van den. Treur-toonneel der doorluchtige mannen, of Op- en Ondergang der grooten, vertoont in rampzalige geschienissen van Keyzers, Koningen, Prinsen, Vorsten, en andere voorname personagien. Beginnende met het Roomsche Keizerryk, en vervolgende tot aan 't jaar 1698. Uit menigte van schryvers, en verscheidene taalen, by een gebracht door Lambert van den Bosch. Tweede deel, bevattende de derde en vierde afdeeling, Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1698, vol. 2, p. 404.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Il est glorieux de mourir pour sa patrie (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Simon of Trent’s corpse (“victima”) (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 5v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers
Death Decius Mus (1641)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna (1726 - 1729)
Musée Magnin, Dijon
Oliver Cromwell on Horseback (1671)
from: Galardi, Ferdinand de. La tyranie heureuse ou Cromwel politique, avec ses artifices et intrigues dans tout le cours de sa conduite, Leiden, Jean Pauwels, 1671, Frontispice
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Execution of Egmond and Horne (1568)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
"The First Adventure of the White Horse". The king performed the horse sacrifice in order to determine the extent of his rule. For one year a horse wanders and every land through which the horse passes becomes part of the king’s territory. Arjuna following the horse encountered the son-in-law of the god of fire, Agni, who creates a river of fire to block the warriors. Arjuna pleads with Agni, the god of fire that the horse be allowed to pass, saying that the horse sacrifice is in accordance with sacred Vedic injunctions, and that at the end of the year, the horse will be sacrificed to him, the god of fire himself. (1610-1617)
from: Page from the Khan Khanan's Razm Nama (Book of Wars)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Consacration of Decius Mus (1616 - 1617)
Prince of Liechtenstein's Collections, Wien
De Vrijheid-verkrijging der Protestantsche godsdienst, in de Nederlanden (1817(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Menelaus and Ulysses (17th Century)
Musée de la Faïence, Nevers







