[Alex Murphy]

The slashed and broken medieval images displayed in the new Art Under Attack exhibition at the Tate are a reminder of what we lost in the hundred and fifty years after the Reformation. Even now there is denial about the scale of the erasing of our medieval past. The Tate estimates we lost 90% of our religious art. It was probably even more than that. The destruction was on a scale that far outstrips the modern efforts of Islamist extremists. And it was not only art we lost, but also books and music.

Speaking of which, the Israelites called, and they'd like their bronze serpent back.

[vladimir998]

Tell them to talk to the Orthodox: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.monomakhos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/serpent-1.png&imgrefurl=http://www.monomakhos.com/crozier-and-cadduceus-serpentine-imagery-in-christian-iconography/&h=436&w=328&sz=159&tbnid=jqC0wcIJm7Ri3M:&tbnh=114&tbnw=86&zoom=1&usg=__PMrwTPNrYZ1lnEtHV3UUuTG15zk=&docid=Q_5z-t2sBhPquM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S6ZUUpm_JemN3AXcuoDABw&ved=0CD0Q9QEwBA

[PieterCasparzen]

I think those Florencians want their stuff back too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The Tate estimates we lost 90% of our religious art. It was probably even more than that.***

Let’s not forget the Iconoclastic period of Constantinople.
http://www.greece.org/romiosini/iconoclastic.html

And Savanarola disliked and had destroyed some religious art, but not all.

[MrChips]

What about the Ark of the Covenant?