Why was Catholic art, like paintings and sculptures, destroyed during the Reformation? O Protestant leaders preferred to support Renaissance artists instead.
Humanist teachings forbade the use of religious themes in art.
Protestants demolished Catholic cathedrals to build new churches in their place.
Some Protestants believed religious imagery should be banned from churches.

Some Protestants believed religious imagery should be banned from churches

Explanation:

Some reformed Protestants majorly the Calvinist around the sixteenth century in Europe believed that religious imagery should be banned from churches.

In what was known as Iconoclasm, the Calvinist Protestants were involved during this period (16th century) in the destruction of arts in churches, including fittings and symbols as well as those found in open places.

simplify brackets

8 - 2a - 7 = a + 40

simplify 8 - 2a - 7 to -2a + 1

-2a + 1 = a + 40

add 2a to both sides

1 = a + 40 + 2a

simplify a + 40 + 2a to 3a + 40

1 = 3a + 40

subtract 40 from both sides

1 - 40 = 3a

simplify 1 - 40 o -39

-39 = 3a

divide both sides by 3

-39/3 = a

simplify 39/3 to 13

-13 = a

switch sides

a = -13