Two Fauns or Satyrs sacrificing a goat over an altar flame. Naked fauns with tails and pointed ears butcher an animal with a knife. Faunorum Sacraficium. 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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