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History of the heresy of the iconoclasts
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Scene of iconoclasm taking place in front of a church.
The men in the foreground arm themselves with hammers to smash the statues of the saints. The center group ties a rope to a large statue of a saint holding a sword in order to swing it. In the background, liturgical instruments are transported from another church and thrown onto a bonfire.
The Dutch painter and printmaker Jan Luyken (1649-1712) created this image as a frontispiece to a book by Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686) entitled Historie van de Kettery der Beeldstormers (History of the Heresy of the Iconoclasts) published in Amsterdam in 1685 by Timotheus ten Hoorn.
History of the heresy of the iconoclasts
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Scene of iconoclasm taking place in front of a church.