Iconoclasm in a Church, by Dirck van Delen (1630)
A man on a ladder has placed a noose around the neck of a saint, while below three men stand ready to topple it from its socle. At the right a statute has been brutally hacked in half. In August 1566 fanatic Protestants destroyed altarpieces, statues and sacred vessels used for the Catholic Mass in countless churches through the Netherlands. It was a black day in Dutch history, and one rarely depicted in art.