# St Augustine Sacrificing to a Manichaean Idol (?)

- By: Aert van den Bossche
- Date: c. 1480
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: frame: height 118 cm x width 89.5
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2057--b1ad283656e922b775783147ce72e679)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/0a4cc8e5afa3fde83720807799abb5a0.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A lamb and a goat are sacrificed to a golden idol in a temple in the heart of a Late Gothic town. The kneeling priest might be St Augustine, the Church Father who in his youth had embraced Manichaeism. However, after converting to Christianity, he fervently refuted this once widespread early religion. Made in Brussels, the panel probably was part of an altarpiece or series of paintings featuring scenes from Augustine’s life.