Iconophobia

Iconophobia refers to an aversion to images, especially religious icons; it is differentiated from iconoclasm in that iconophobia refers to the aversion to or hatred of images, while iconoclasm refers to the actual destruction of images that may arise from iconophobia. The history of iconophobia begins with ancient Greece and Rome and continues with the iconoclasms of the Eastern Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire between 726 and 842, though it is the Protestant Reformation, initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 and pushed to its extreme in the teachings of John Calvin, that is most associated with the concept, and it permanently affected how images were made, exhibited and judged.