Paidikos

Bowl signed by Paidikos as a painter, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum 48.2240

Paidikos ( Greek Παιδικός ; translates as "childish, boyish") is a name of an Attic - red-figure potter and vase painter been interpreted, the v in the last quarter of the 6th century. Was active in Athens .

The only one signed by him as a potter ( ἐποίησεν ) is a white-ground alabastron in Paris , after which the group of Paidikos alabastra is named. Since the Parisian Alabastron cannot be separated from the Alabastra des Pasiades in terms of shape and type , John D. Beazley considered whether Paidikos was just a nickname for the Pasiades. The name Paidikos without a signature still occurs on bowls , the decoration of which comes from the Euergides painter or is stylistically close to him.

The attributive word προσαγορεύω ( prosagoreuo , "I greet") is added to the potter's signature on the Paris vase , which can also be found on a number of other stylistically similar alabastra and bowls without his signature. Most of them correspond in style to the Parisian vase and can be assigned to the Euergides painter and his environment. Since the verb is otherwise uncommon to ascribe works, the vessels probably all come from the Paidikos workshop.

The signature of Paidiko as a vase painter ( ἔγραψσεν ) is only documented on a bowl in Baltimore , on which a man is shown drinking from a bowl.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 102-104. 1700.
Enrico Paribeni : Paidikos . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (ed.): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 5. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1963.
John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 331.
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 4). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 69.
Juliane Weinig: Paidikos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 173.
Martin Robertson : The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, pp. 221-223.

Web links

Commons : Paidikos - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

^ Paris, Louvre , inventory number CA 487, from Eretria .
↑ Baltimore, Walters Art Museum inventory number 48.2240 .

personal data
SURNAME	Paidikos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Παίδικος (ancient Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter and vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.

[1] Paris, Louvre , inventory number CA 487, from Eretria .

[2] Baltimore, Walters Art Museum inventory number 48.2240 .