Editing Beeldenstorm (section)

=="''Stille beeldenstorm''" of 1581 in Antwerp==
Antwerp experienced a further period of iconoclasm in 1581, after a Calvinist city council was elected and purged the city's clergy and guilds of Catholic office-holders. This is known as the "quiet" or "''stille''" ''beeldenstorm'', as the removal of images was carried out by the institutions they belonged to, the council itself, churches and the guilds. Some images were sold rather than destroyed, but most seem to have been lost. In the summer of 1584 Antwerp was [[Fall of Antwerp|besieged by the Duke of Parma's Spanish army]], falling a year later.<ref>Freedberg, 133</ref>