***In a way this is chickens coming home to roost so to speak. The Presbyterians did so much to encourage iconoclasm in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.***
But lets remember that Savanarola encouraged iconoclasm before that, and a certain Byzantine emperor before that.
You wrote: "But lets remember that Savanarola encouraged iconoclasm before that, and a certain Byzantine emperor before that."
Savonorola never encouraged a general, wanton iconoclasm. The wall paintings in his monastic cell were never damaged for instance. He encouraged the destruction of images he considered immodest.