Keyword: Bible
Elijah confounds the prophets of Baal by putting their God to a challenge. Only Elijah's sacrifice to God is consumed by fire (III Kings 18: 25-40) (1539)
from: Britain
Boston, The Harvard Art Museums
Manoah and his wife sacrificing [1430]
from: Psalterium romanum [Mantova]
Paris, BnF, Ms Latin 772, fol. 8
Martyrdom of the prophet Zakarīyā (Zechariah) (XVI)
from: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A fol. 3
Martyrdom of Zakariya (XVI)
from: ishâq nishâbûrî, qisas-i qur'ân. [Qazvin, Iran]
Paris, BnF, Persan 54, fol. 144v
Sacrifice of Jephthah (1461)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Belgium)
Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 245, fol. 125
Scenes of sacrifice (1685)
from: Title page of Herman Witsius, De oeconomia foderum Dei cum hominibus, Leeuwarden, 1685
The Martyrdom of Zakarîyâ (Zacharias), the father of John the Baptist, who is killed when the tree in which he is hiding is sawn in two (c. 1580)
from: Nīsābūrī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, Qisas al-Anbiyâ [Qazvin?]
The New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Persian MS. 46, fol. 144
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1218)
from: Psalter of Queen Ingeborg (Paris)
Chantilly, Musee Conde, Ms.9, folio 11r
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Lower left) (1244–1254)
from: Old Testament Miniatures with Latin, Persian, and Judeo-Persian inscriptions. Paris.
New York, The Morgan Library Library & Museum, MS M.638, fol. 3r
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Armenian Gospel Book) (1386)
from: Lake Van, Turkey
Getty Museum, Armenian Ms. Ludwig II 6 (83.MB.70), fol. 5v
After water had thrice been poured over Elijah's sacrifice, fire descended from heaven to consume it, whereupon the people renounced the worship (1530-1538)
from: Book of Hours. Use of Rome (Hours of Eleonora Ippolita Gonzaga)
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 29
Titlepage of Theatrum Biblicum (1639)
from: Theatrum biblicum, hoc est historiæ sacræ Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis æneis expressæ. Opus præstantissimorum huius ac superioris seculi pictorum atque sculptorum, summo studio conquisitum et in lucem editum per Nicolaum Iohannis Piscatorem. Amsterdam, 1639
Sacrifice in Egypt (1776 -1825)
Herzog August Bibliothek
The Angel Departing from Manoah and His Wife (Victima per Manuen, domino mactatur optima: Vxor) (1584)
from: The Story of Samson, Hand-colored engravings (Netherlands)
Harvard Art Museum
The sacrifice of Elijah on Mount Carmel [1531]
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1455)
from: Gospels, Armenia (monastery of Gamałiēl in Xizan), Walters Manuscript W.543, fol. 4r
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Et Ketz (Mystical and Kabbalistic literature) (1710)
from: Yechacham – Rabbi Yitzchak Chaim HaCohen of the Kantorini Chazanim, Et Ketz, Amsterdam, Shlomo Proops 1710
Ritual Sacrifice of a Calf (1712)
from: Theophili Amilii... Erörterung der dunckelsten und schwersten Schrifft-Stellen im N. Testament, Franckfurt, Samuel Heyl, 1712
Wikimedia & google books
Agnus Dei. (1635-1640)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The sacrifice of Samuel at Masfa and the flight of the Philistines [1650]
from: France
Istituto d'Arte Duccio di Boninsegna