The research foci of Horst Bredekamp are Iconoclastic Fury, sculpture of the Romanesque, art of the Renaissance and Mannerism, political iconography, art and technology, new media.

When in August, 1566 social unrest broke out in connection with open-air sermons of Calvinists and subsequently the Iconoclastic Fury, he argued for repression.

In 1566 the Protestants revolted, running riot and ransacking churches in a wave of violence that has become known as the Iconoclastic Fury.

Soon this Beeldenstorm or Iconoclastic Fury engulfed the entire country.

Only by paying a substantial sum to William of Orange's army could the church be saved during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566.

The combined effects of a fire in the Middle Ages, the Iconoclastic Fury and plundering during the French occupation mean that little of what you see today inside the cathedral is original Gothic.

His eye-witness account of the "Iconoclastic Fury" or Beeldenstorm in Antwerp in 1566, is often quoted.

This led to the Beeldenstorm, or "Iconoclastic Fury", in 1566, in which hundreds of churches were stripped of statuary and other religious decoration.

Once part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries, Steenvoorde was the site of the beginning of the Beeldenstorm, or "Iconoclastic Fury."

In the 16th century, after the Iconoclastic Fury and the Reformation, the monastery was put into use as a Court of Law and the building remained in this function till the year 2000.