Tate Art Museum Exhibition is Reminder of Christian Taliban Actions of the Tudors

CATHOLIC HERALD
By Leanda De Lisle

Portrait of King Henry VIII who led the destruction of Catholic Religious Art

UNITED KINGDOM---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. In churches rood screens, tombs with their prayers for the dead, and stain glass windows, were smashed. Books too were burned on a vast scale. Organs were torn out of churches. [link]