 They were not detected and the crowd left after destroying what else they could find.The panels were then moved to the town hall, and only returned to view in 1569, by which time the elaborate frame had disappeared.<ref></ref>

Despite militia guards, two of the three main churches in Leiden were attacked; in the Pieterskerk the choirbooks and altarpiece by Lucas van Leyden were preserved.<ref></ref> In the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam an altarpiece with a central panel by Jan van Scorel and side panels painted on both sides by Maarten van Heemskerck was lost.<ref></ref> The most important works of several painters, especially those like Pieter Aertsen who worked in Antwerp,<ref>Gustav Friedrich Waagen, </ref> were all destroyed, leading to a somewhat distorted view of the art history of the period.An altarpiece in Culemborg had been commissioned in 1557 from the painter Jan Dey, was then destroyed in 1566 and in 1570 recommissioned from Dey, apparently as a copy of the first.