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Works
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Unknown artist
ca. 1180
"The Feast of Sada", Folio 22v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Sultan Muhammad|Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1525
Mucius Scaevola Burning His Hand
Albrecht Altdorfer
date unknown
"The Fire Ordeal of Siyavush", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
dated 887 AH/1482 CE
Centaur Carrying a Vase with Fire
Albrecht Altdorfer
date unknown
The Chaldeans Carrying Away the Pillars of the Temple of Jerusalem, plate 17 from "The Disasters of the Jewish People"
Maarten van Heemskerck|Philips Galle
1569
Moses and the Burning Bush
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)
ca. 1544–48
A group of men at right pushing philosophers toward a fire with burning books at the left
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Mutius Scaevola Burning His Hand
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)
ca. 1540 (?)
Noah's Sacrifice; Noah at right with his hands clapsed in prayer before a fire upon an altar, two men sacrificing a ram on the ground and another bringing a second ram, two men leading two cows and a camel behind the fire
Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
ca. 1515–27
Fortitude in profile view walking toward a fire at left and leading a harnessed lion, a landscape in the background
Marco Dente|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Tommaso Vincidor (Tommaso di Andrea)|Antonio Salamanca
ca. 1515–27
A man kneeling and placing a laurel branch upon a pile of burning books
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)|Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
The Martyrdom of Saint John, from "The Apocalypse"
Albrecht Dürer
1511
Roundel with Sacrifice in the Temple
Unknown artist
ca. 1515–25
The sacrifice of a ram held by a naked man at right, hooded priest at left with a young attendant
Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century|Marco Dente
ca. 1515–1600
Roundel with Allegorical Scene of Book Burning
Unknown artist
ca. 1520–30
Tazza
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli
ca. 1530–40
The Trojans Defend Their City; They Kill Androgeos (Aeneid, Book II)
Master of the Aeneid
ca. 1530–35
"The Crows Trap the Owls in Their Cave by Lighting a Fire at the Entrance and Fanning it with Their Wings" , Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Unknown artist
second quarter 16th century
Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders while Troy burns in the background
Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Philippe Thomassin
1530–60
Dish with The Woman of Sestos and the Eagle and arms of the Pucci family
Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo
1532
Mutius Scaevola placing his hand in the flames (left half of a composition, the right half of which shows a woman extending her right arm towards an altar)
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)
ca. 1540
Term in the Form of an Old Man Warming His Hands
Jean Mignon
1535–55
Burning of a Corpse
Antonio Fantuzzi|Rosso Fiorentino
ca. 1543
Moses and the burning bush
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)
ca. 1544–47
A Sacrifice
Léon Davent|Francesco Primaticcio
1540–56
The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Marco Dente|Antonio Salamanca
16th century
The Sacrifice
Antonio Fantuzzi|Rosso Fiorentino
1542
Sloth, from "Seven Deadly Sins"
Léon Davent|Luca Penni
ca. 1550–55
Dish
Fontana workshops|Sebald Beham
ca. 1550–60
Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch
date unknown
Hope (Spes), from "The Virtues"
Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Hieronymus Cock|Philips Galle
1559–60
Punitio Tirannorum, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"
Hendrick Goltzius|Philips Galle
date unknown
Punitio Tirannorum, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"
Hendrick Goltzius
date unknown
Lot Seduced by his Daughters
P.M.
ca. 1567
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Cornelis Cort|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
1571
Sacrifice of Noah
Bernard Salomon
ca. 1580–1610
December: And Old Man Seated by a Hearth with a Young Man Blowing on the Fire
Crispijn de Passe the Elder
late 16th–mid 17th century
Design for a Knife Handle with a Couple Gathered Around a Fire at Bottom
Johann Theodor de Bry
1580–1600
Plate 23: Judith and Holofernes, from "The Battles of the Old Testament"
Antonio Tempesta|Nicolaus van Aelst
ca. 1590–1610
Orpheus and Eurydice
Agostino Carracci
ca. 1590–95
The Sacrifice of Noah
Unknown artist
late 16th century
Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 72 (recto)
Federico de Vinciolo|Jean Le Clerc|Henri III, King of France and Poland|Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont|Chambolle-Duru
1588
"Asvatthama Fires the Narayana Weapon (Cosmic Fire) at the Pandavas", Folio from a Razmnama
'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Bairam Khan Khan-i Khanan
ca. 1616–17
Man with Torch between Flaming Altar and Statuette, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"
Enea Vico|Francesco Angeloni|Battista Franco|Philippe Thomassin|Anonymous, Italian, 16th century
published ca. 1599–1622
The Elements: Fire
Christoph Murer
early 17th century
Diana Hunting and Proserpina in the Underworld
Master I. D. C.
probably early 17th century
Soldiers pillaging a town
Anonymous, 17th century
17th century
Women Conversing
Unknown artist
17th century
The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva
Payag
ca. 1630–35
Plate 112: Agamemnon Sacrificing Iphigenia (Iphigenia Agamemnoni immolanda, à Diana (cerva eius in locum substituta) surripitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decerptio iuventam restituit Medea), plate 64 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)
Willem Jansz.|Antonio Tempesta
Published after 1606
Plate 64: Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decrepito iuventam restituit Medea), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Plate 67: Medea Destroying Jason's Family and Home (Trucidatis liberis Medea fugam capeßit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)
1610–16
Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs..."
Thomas de Leu|Antoine Caron
1614–15
The Prophecy of Calchas from a set of The Story of Troy
Bernard Salomon|Francisco Mascarenhas Governor of Macau, 1623–26
ca. 1625
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Lucas Vorsterman I|Peter Paul Rubens|Lawrence Beyerlinck
1621
Aeneas Carrying Anchises in the Burning of Troy
Francesco Allegrini
1624–63
Charity
Cesare Dandini
ca. 1630