Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th century) – Image Gallery

Het tooneel der Enghelsche ellenden [1651]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK

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

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]

Atilius Regulus Closed in the Barrel [1531]
Palazzo Te, Apartment of the Secret Garden, Vault, Mantua

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1761(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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

Allegory on the Jubilee of Dutch Freedom, 1648-1748 (1748)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Diana en Iphigenia (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Fox. The Historical Painter (1784)
British Museum, London

The Funeral of Freedom (1769)
British Museum, London

A Sacrificial Scene (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles

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 Fatal Sacrifice (18th Century)
Wellcome Collection, London

Ifigenia Treuspel (1715)
from: Racine. Jean. Ifigenia in Aulis, treurspel, Amsterdam, Jacob Lescailje, 1715, Frontespiece
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

The Execution of Charles I of England [1649]
Scottish National Gallery

D' klagende Koninck Carolus Stuart [1650]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Fight between Horatii and Curiatii (1612 - 1613)
Musei capitolini, Sala degli Orazi, Rome

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

Atilius Regulus in the Spiked Barrel (17th Century)
Museo Civico, Feltre

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1465)
from: Tiberinus, Johannes Matthias, Passio Beati Simonis
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

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 the King (18th Century)
British Museum, London

Charles I and Archbishop Laud Kneeling in Prayer (17th Century)
British Museum, London

The Confession of Richard Brandon the Hangman [1649]
from: The Confession of Richard Brandon the Hangman (Upon His Death Bed) Concerning His Beheading His Late Majesty, Charles the First, King of Great Britain; and His Protestation and Vow Touching the Smae; the Manner how He Was Terrified in Conscience; the Apparitions and Visions Which Apeared Unto Him; the Great Judgement that Befell Him Three Dayes Before He Dy’d; and the Manner How He Was Carryed to White-Chappell Churchyard on Thursday Night Last, the Strange Actions That Happened Thereupon; With the Merry Conceits of the Crowne Cook and His Providing Mourning Cords for the Buriall, [London], s.n., [1649], Frontispice
British Library, London

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

Purported Martyrdom of Simone of Trient
Church of St Maria Rotonda. Pian Camuno, Val Camonica

Marcus Aurelius While Offering a Sacrifice (16th Century)
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

King Jeroboam Making Sacrifice to the Golden Calf (17 - 18)
Staten Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

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

Patientia holds the 17 provinces together during the war, c. 1575 (1575(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Il est glorieux de mourir pour sa patrie (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

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

The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1667)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

The Loyall Sacrifice (1648) (1760 - 1799)
The Collection of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

The assassination of King Lazar (1577)
from: Türckische Chronica (Adelphus Johannes)

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

A king sacrifices an animal in front of the statue of Thor (1639)
RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona

Episode of Roman History with Iustitia and Prudentia (1711(?))
Musée du Louvre, Paris

De Vrijheid-verkrijging der Protestantsche godsdienst, in de Nederlanden (1817(?))
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Corruptibilem pro incorruptibile (1717)
British Museum, London

Execution of Charles the First (1649)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Mucius Scaevola in the Presence of Porsenna [1601 - 1650]
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Atilius Regulus Leave (18th Century)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe (scatola 10), Venice

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

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell (?th Century)
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

Death Decius Mus (1617)
Liechtenstein Museum, Wien

The Torture of Atilius Regulus [1542 - 1543]
British Museum, London

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)
National Gallery, London

K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK

Execution of Charles I [1680]
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

Oliver Cromwell between Two Pillars (above, The Sacrifice of Isaac) (1658)
Royal Collection Trust

The Sacrifice of Jephtah’s Daughter (18th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London

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

Mucius Scevola in front of Porsenna (18th Century)
Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer

King Solomon Sacrificing to the Idols (1640(?))
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

A King Sacrificing (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London

The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers

Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

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

Thomas Morus quondam supremus totius Angliae cancellarius digniss (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London

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

King David Sacrifices to God and Sees the Angel of Death (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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

Cromwel. Viceregent (?th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Cartoon on Oliver Cromwell (1653)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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

The Death of Don Juan and the Humiliation of Alva, 1578 (1578)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Execution of Egmond and Horne [1568]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Execution of Charles I (18th Century)
The Royal Collection Trust, UK

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17 - 18)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Brutus Sons Corps (1789)
Museée du Louvre, Paris

Menelaus and Ulysses (17th Century)
Musée de la Faïence, Nevers

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

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

Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation (1815)
London, Wellcome Collection

David Sacrificing to God (16th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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 Coronation of Louis XVI (18th Century)
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Purported Martyrdom of Simon of Trent (1480)
Museo provinciale Alto Adige

Stove Plate with a Sacrificing King David and the Prophet Gad (16-17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Scène de sacrifice d'un roi, peut-être le châtiment de Lycurgue (1594-1650)
London, Christie's

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

On doit à sa patrie le sacrifice de ses plus chères affections (1795)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Purported ritual murder - Blood libel (18th)
Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland

Emblematic print referring to the execution of Charles I and the Stuart succession (1715)
British Museum, London