Virgins making a sacrifice at an altar to the Roman goddess Vesta. Priestesses in laurel crowns bring a torch and a platter of flames. Other Vestals play music on a lyre and wave blossom branches. Vestalium Sacrificium. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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