Eastern Christians venerated painted icons but abominated carved images

Evidence

That learned bishop and traveller, Giovanni de’ Marignolli, explained almost with sympathy how all the Orientals opposed the Latin belief: not only Jews, Tartars and Muslims, but also Christians, who venerated icons (pictures) but abominated carvings. Yet the untravelled Latin imagined that all Christendom adored the images of Christ and the saints. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader history of the iconoclastic controversy and Eastern vs. Western Christianity’s differing attitudes to material representation — echoes issues in the image debates.
• ADDENDUM: Parallel to the immodesty moral panics article: both concern how religious/cultural practice (icons vs. carvings here) becomes the flashpoint for identity and political signaling.