Keyword: Ancient Romans
Suovetaurilia; at right bulls, rams and boars being brought towards the altar positioned in front of the entrance of a circular temple, various animals being sacrificed to left. (1566)
from: An illustration to Onofrio Panvinio's 'De Ludis Circensibus', published in Rome
The British Museum, London
Aeneas sacrifices at the tomb of Anchises, a giant snake winds around the altar (1688)
from: Peplus virtutum Romanarum in Aenea Virgiliano eiusque rebus fortiter gestis, ad maiorem antiquitatis et rerum lucem, communi iuventutis sacratae bono, aere renitens) (Nuremburg: J.L. Buggel, 1688), pl. 18.
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum
Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia, ex postrema authori recognitione: quibus praemissi sunt quatuor indices locupletissimi, tam adagiorum quam locorum, tum rerum ac vocum in hoc opere explicatarum, cognituque dignarum. Quae his iam primum accesserint, proxima post praefationes abunde pagella demonstrabit
Basilea: Ex officina Episcopiana, 1574.
Ad tit. cod. Theodosiani de paganis, sacrificiis, & templis, notae
Lutetia: Sebastianus Cramoisiy, 1618.
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatione fragmentum ex vetustissimo exemplari bibliotheca Farnesiana descriptum. Schedae quae festi fragmento detractae apug Pomponium Laetum Extabant. Ex bibliotheca Fului Ursini. Notae in Sex. Pompei Festi fragmentum, schedas, et epitomama
s.n.: Apud Petrum Santandreanum, 1583.
Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Hercules [1575]
Harvard Art Museums nr 2016.248.10
Ancient Sacrifice and Head of a Satyr (?th Century)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Ancient Ritual Sacrifice (1553)
from: Lafréry, Antoine. Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae [...], Roma, n. p., 1553, A 110
University of Chicago Library, Chicago
Regulus Returning to Carthage (1791)
The State museum Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Satyrs offering a sacrifice to Pan (1510)
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
The Sacrifice of Atilius Regulus [1800]
Museo Civico, Ala Ponzone, Cremona
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
Aeneas and His Companions Sacrifice to the Gods before the Tomb of his Father, Anchises, in Sicily (1530–35)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York
Aeneas finds a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno [1530]
from: Vergil, Aeneid (Limoges, France)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 1604-1855)
Aeneas Offers Sacrifice to the Gods of the Lower World (1530-1540)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
(1663)
from: L'Enea vagante pitture dei Caracci (from the frescos in Bologna, Palazzo Fava)
Accademia dei Lincei, Fondo Corsini, Roma