| The Sacrifice of Polyxena | |
| Artist: | Giovanni Francesco Romanelli |
| Year: | 1610-1660 |
| Height Metric: | 197.5 |
| Width Metric: | 223.5 |
| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| City: | New York |
The Sacrifice of Polyxena is a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Romanelli. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the death of Polyxena, a captive Trojan princess sacrificed to appease the ghost of the Greek hero Achilles, who had been killed by the Trojans. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]