Beeldenstorm
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Beeldenstorm in Dutch and Bildersturm in German are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or
Print of the destruction in the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp, the "signature event" of the Beeldenstorm, 20 August 1566, by Frans Hogenberg
Protestant polemical print celebrating the destruction, 1566
A German woodcut of 1530 titled Klagrede der armen verfolgten Götzen und Tempelbilder (English: "Complaint of the poor persecuted idols and temple pictures") by Erhard Schön.
An outdoor sermon depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder as The Sermon of St John the Baptist, 1566.
Eighty Years' War, 1566–1572
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The period between the start of the Beeldenstorm in August 1566 until early 1572 contained the first events of a series that would later be known as the Eighty Years' War between the Spanish Empire an
The Beeldenstorm or Iconoclastic Fury was a more or less organised destruction of Catholic sacred objects which swept through the Habsburg Netherlands' churches in 1566. 1630 painting by Dirck van Delen
Relief statues in St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht, attacked in Reformation iconoclasm in the 16th century.
The Duke of Alba, painted by Antonis Mor in 1549
William of Orange painted by Anthonis Mor around 1554