A SELECT HISTORY OF ICONOCLASM SINCE 1500
1531: Mexico. Father Zumarraga, the chief inquisitor under the Conquistadors, reports the Franciscan order destroying numerous Aztec temples and that “more than 20,000 figures of the devils they worshipped have been broken to pieces and burned.”
1547: England. Decree of Edward VI launches a wave of iconoclasm against statues and religious imagery in English parish churches.
Belgium. The
