Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery
Oliver Cromwell between Two Pillars (above, The Sacrifice of Isaac) (1658)
Royal Collection Trust
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
King Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols (1640(?))
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1553)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Loyall Martyrology (1665)
from: Winstanley, William. The Loyall Martyrology, or Brief Catalogues and Characters of the Most Eminent Persons Who Suffered Their Conscience During the Last Times of Rebelion, Either by Death, Imprisonment, Banishment, or Sequestration; Together With Those Who Were Slain in the Kings Service. As Also, Dregs of Treacehry: With the Catalogue and Characters of Those Regicides Who Sat as Judges on Our Late Dread Soveraign of Ever Blessed Memory; With Others of That Gang, Most Eminent for Villany. For Encouragement to Virtue, and Determent from Vice, London, Thomas Mobb-Edward Thomas, 1665, Frontispiece
British Museum, London
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
Fight between Horatii and Curiatii (1612 - 1613)
Musei capitolini, Sala degli Orazi, Rome
King Jeroboam Making Sacrifice to the Golden Calf (17 - 18)
Staten Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
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
The Execution of Charles I of England [1649]
Scottish National Gallery
The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (1922)
New York, MoMA
Consacration of Decius Mus (1616 - 1617)
Prince of Liechtenstein's Collections, Wien
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
David Sacralized King by Samuel (1647(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris
King David Sacrifices to God and Sees the Angel of Death (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A King Sacrificing (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Sacrifice of Jephtah’s Daughter (18th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Purported ritual murder - Blood libel (18th)
Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland
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
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1667)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Het tooneel der Enghelsche ellenden [1651]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
De Vrijheid-verkrijging der Protestantsche godsdienst, in de Nederlanden (1817(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Episode of Roman History with Iustitia and Prudentia (1711(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18th Century)
Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer
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
The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers
Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd]
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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
Emblematic print referring to the execution of Charles I and the Stuart succession (1715)
British Museum, London
The assassination of King Lazar (1577)
from: Türckische Chronica (Adelphus Johannes)
On doit à sa patrie le sacrifice de ses plus chères affections (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Jephthah’s Daughter (16th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Death of the King (18th Century)
British Museum, London
Alva Murders the Innocent Inhabitants of the Netherlands (1572)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Martyrdom of St. John of Nepomuk (ca 1750)
National Museum,Warsaw
Corruptibilem pro incorruptibile (1717)
British Museum, London
A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
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
Passover seder (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 6v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna (1726 - 1729)
Musée Magnin, Dijon
Cromwel. Viceregent (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Coronation of Louis XVI (18th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
A King Compelled to Offer a Sacrifice by Two Gorgonians (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Stove Plate with a Sacrificing King David and the Prophet Gad (16-17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Last Moment of King Charles the First (1838)
British Museum, London
Statue of the Duke of Alba, 1571 (1725)
from: Halma F.; Brouërius van Nidek, M. Tooneel der Vereenigde Nederlanden en onderhorige landschappen, geopent in een algemeen historisch, genealogisch, geographisch en staatkundig woordenboek, Leeuwarden, H. Halma, 1725, vol. 1, fol. 298
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Torture of Atilius Regulus [1542 - 1543]
British Museum, London
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
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
Execution of Egmond and Horne [1568]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
A king sacrifices an animal in front of the statue of Thor (1639)
RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
Thomas Morus quondam supremus totius Angliae cancellarius digniss (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
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
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
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
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
The Death of Atilius Regulus (1662)
Galleria Trincia, Rome
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
Execution of Charles the First (1649)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Atilius Regulus Leave (18th Century)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe (scatola 10), Venice
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
Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]
Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua
Il est glorieux de mourir pour sa patrie (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)
National Gallery, London
The Royal Martyr King Charles the First (1735)
British Museum, London
Allegory on the Jubilee of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748 (1748)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
David Sacrificing to God (16th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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]
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17 - 18)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Execution of the baptized Jews in Trent (1475)
from: Historie von Simon zu Trient [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 62#Beibd], fol. 12v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Duke of Alba's Oppression of the Netherlands (1569)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Pélias to Neptune (17th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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
Charles I and Archbishop Laud Kneeling in Prayer (17th Century)
British Museum, London
Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Funeral of Freedom (1769)
British Museum, London
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
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 Loyall Sacrifice (1648) (1760 - 1799)
The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London
Ifigenia Treuspel (1715)
from: Racine. Jean. Ifigenia in Aulis, treurspel, Amsterdam, Jacob Lescailje, 1715, Frontespiece
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
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
The Death of Don Juan and the Humiliation of Alva, 1578 (1578)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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
Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris
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
Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien








