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The image breakers, c.1566 –1568 by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder  The etching is also known as Allegory of Iconoclasm. Although not particularly sympathetic to the Calvinist image breakers, it is mainly critical of the Church. Thus the etching might have been the main reason why Gheeraerts had to flee to England in 1568. (British Museum, Dept. of Print and Drawings, 1933.1.1..3)

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Year 1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Art and culture

• The Four Elements (Arcimboldo)

Events

• August – Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.

Undated

• Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
• The first bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar (in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) is completed by the Ottoman Empire. The white marble bridge is now known as Stari Most (or "Old Bridge").
• The Spanish doubloon is first made during the reign of Phillip II of Spain.
• Pope Pius IV expels all the prostitutes from Rome.

Births

• August 12 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
• Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (d. 1643)

Deaths

• April 25 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II of France (b. 1499)
• April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1525)
• May 4 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
• May 10 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a botanist (b. 1501)
• July 2 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
• July 17 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
• July 30 – Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
• September 2 – Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1529)
• September 5 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
• Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (b. 1530)