Keyword: Lamb
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1485)
Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera
The Spirit of Piety; to the left, two lambs burn on a sacrificial altar, Abel kneels by his offering (1595)
from: Antwerp
The British Museum, London
The Adoration of the Lamb - The Song of the Elect (1511)
Louvre, Paris
The Adoration of the Lamb (1432)
from: The Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Burnt offerings in the Temple of Jerusalem from within the Court of the Levites (1660)
from: plate from the 'Restoration' Bible 2 vols., published by John Ogilby, Cambridge, 1660
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Scenes related to Saint Augustine addressing the Romans, featuring the Mass and, in the upper right, an animal sacrifice in the Temple. Augustine's words on a scroll read: «C'est le vray sacrifice a Dieu agreable». [1480]
from: St. Augustin [Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis]: La cité de Dieu. Enlumineur Maître de Coëtivy, Traducteur: Raoul de Presles (1316-1382). Miniature at the beginning of book 10
France, Mâcon, Médiathèque et Archives municipales, Ms. 1, fol. 305
Plato speaks of the sacrifice to God; men and women praying and offering sacrifices
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague
The sacrifice of Cain and Abel (1601)
from: Engraved illustration from Louis Richeome, Les tableaux sacrez (Paris, Sonnius: 1601), plate 2, pag. 48
The offering of the Jews
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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
Sacrifice of the ram and the lamb (1301-1400)
from: La Bible hystoriaus
Paris, BnF, Français 160, fol 95
Sacrifices of Abel, Abraham and Melchizedek
Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
Abrahams Dankopfer (1653)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Killing of the Passover Lamb, putting blood on the lintel and the door-posts (1335-1340)
from: Rylands Sephardi Haggadah, Passover Haggadah (Catalonia, Spain)
Manchester, The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6, fol. 19v
Pesah dorot (from the Birds’ Head Haggadah) (1300)
from: Birds’ Head Haggadah (Germany)
Israel Museum in Jerusalem