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标题：Material religion and Pompeii: introduction
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作者：Jessica Hughes
期刊名称：The Open Arts Journal
电子版ISSN：2050-3679
出版年度：2021
期号：10
DOI：10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s00
语种：English
出版社：The Open University
摘要：Painting was an essential part of the material religion of Pompeii. Executed in a broad range of styles and across the chronological span of the city’s life, Pompeian frescoes both depicted religious activities and decorated religious spaces, ranging from grand public temple structures to intimate household shrines. More than merely documenting a strikingly broad array of religious practices, paintings in Pompeii also deliberately played on their dual status as both powerful attestations of the divine and works of human ingenuity and craft. This essay focuses on one way in which this apparent paradox was explored: the depiction of religious artworks, especially statues and panel paintings, within Pompeian murals. It argues that such paintings simultaneously erect and blur boundaries between the sacred and the profane, the mythological and the everyday, and the real and the represented. In so doing, they expose both the affective and aesthetic power of ancient painting itself.
关键词：material religion; Pompeii; classical archaeology; senses; embodiment; lived religion