Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery
Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris
The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (ca 1470-1475)
from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (recto of 1889,0527.58): Pyrrhus (Neoptolemos) sacrificing Polyxena on the tomb of his father Achilles
British Museum, London
King David Sacrifices to God and Sees the Angel of Death (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Purported ritual murder - Blood libel (18th)
Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland
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
Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation (1815)
London, Wellcome Collection
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
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
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Charles I and Archbishop Laud Kneeling in Prayer (17th Century)
British Museum, London
The Last Moment of King Charles the First (1838)
British Museum, London
Passover seder (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 6v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Thomas Morus quondam supremus totius Angliae cancellarius digniss (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Examination of Simon’s body after its discovery (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 8v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna (1726 - 1729)
Musée Magnin, Dijon
Sacrificium Achas Regis Idololatrae IIII.Reg.XVI (1539)
from: Aemilius, Georg. Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis epigrammatibus à Georgio Aemylio illustratae, Frankfurt, Christianus Egenolphus, [1539], p. Hiv(verso)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Diana en Iphigenia (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Hugh Latimer (17th Century)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Execution of Egmond and Horne [1568]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A Ruler Performing Yajna (Fire Ritual) (1801 - 1900)
Islamic & Indian Paintings, The Dexter Collection Part II, London
De Vrijheid-verkrijging der Protestantsche godsdienst, in de Nederlanden (1817(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)
Museo provinciale Alto Adige
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1465)
from: Tiberinus, Johannes Matthias, Passio Beati Simonis
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Jephtah’s Daughter (18th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Death of Don Juan and the Humiliation of Alva, 1578 (1578)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Cromwel. Viceregent (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
The Sacrifice of Mucius Scevola (17th Century)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole
Alva Murders the Innocent Inhabitants of the Netherlands (1572)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Basilika. The Works of Charles I (1662)
from: Basilika. The Works of King charles the Martyr: With a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and Other Papers Concerning the Differences betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament, London, James Flesher, 1662, Frontispice
British Museum, London
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Execution of Egmond and Horne (1568)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Oliver Cromwell between Two Pillars (above, The Sacrifice of Isaac) (1658)
Royal Collection Trust
Execution of Charles the First (1649)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
The Sacrifice of Pélias to Neptune (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, 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
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]
Allegory on the Jubilee of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748 (1748)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Funeral of Freedom (1769)
British Museum, London
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1602 - 1607]
from: Salsmann, Wilhelm. P. Ovid Nasonis XV Metamorphoseon librorvm figurae elegantissime a Cr[i]spiano Passaeo laminis aeneis incisae: quibus subiuncta sunt epigrammata latine ac germanice conscripta, fabularum omnium summam breviter ac erudite comprehendentia, Cologne, Joannem Jansonium, 1607
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Consacration of Decius Mus (1616 - 1617)
Prince of Liechtenstein's Collections, Wien
Cartoon on Oliver Cromwell (1653)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Stone medallion with the purported martyrdom scene of Simonino di Trento (18th)
Palazzo Salvadori, Trent
Duke of Alba's Oppression of the Netherlands (1569)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Patientia holds the 17 provinces together during the war, c. 1575 (1575(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
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
Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1505-1515)
Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento - Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Trent
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
The assassination of King Lazar (1577)
from: Türckische Chronica (Adelphus Johannes)
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
Atilius Regulus in the Spiked Barrel (17th Century)
Museo Civico, Feltre
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
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
A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (1922)
New York, MoMA
Thomas Wentworth Speaks before His Execution (1701)
from: Ludolff, Hiob. Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt, oder: Beschreibung der vornehmsten Welt-Geschichte. Deel II, Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Zunnern, 1701, vol. 2, p. 905
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Stove Plate with a Sacrificing King David and the Prophet Gad (16-17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Menelaus and Ulysses (17th Century)
Musée de la Faïence, Nevers
The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1667)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
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
"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
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)
National Gallery, London
The Royal Martyr King Charles the First (1735)
British Museum, London
Corruptibilem pro incorruptibile (1717)
British Museum, London
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
Atilius Regulus Leave (18th Century)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe (scatola 10), Venice
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
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
Het tooneel der Enghelsche ellenden [1651]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
D' klagende Koninck Carolus Stuart [1650]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trient
Church of St Maria Rotonda. Pian Camuno, Val Camonica
Execution of Charles I [1680]
British Museum, London
Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]
Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua
The Martyrdom of King Charles the 1st (?th Century)
British Museum, London
Scène de sacrifice d'un roi, peut-être le châtiment de Lycurgue (1594-1650)
London, Christie's
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
Martyrdom of St. John of Nepomuk (ca 1750)
National Museum,Warsaw
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
Spanish conquistadors discovering victims of human sacrifices among the Incas (?) [1790-1799]
London, Wellcome Collection
A King Sacrificing (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Coronation of Louis XVI (18th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris








