Pedieus painter

Dancing maenad with a krotalon in hand in the Berlin Antikensammlung , around 520 BC. Chr.

The Pedieus Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The Pedieus painter was one of the early red-figure bowl painters who were active around the same time as the so-called " pioneer group " of the red-figure style. Like the other bowl painters, the Pedieus painter also tested the possibilities of the new technology due to the comparatively smaller working surface of the bowls - the inside (tondo) and the two outer sides - not to the same depth as the representatives of the pioneer group, but still carried they play their part in the success of the new style. Unlike most of his contemporaries, the Pedieus painter did not paint eye bowls, but mainly type C bowls and no longer worked in the black-figure style . He was a talented draftsman whose works are very close to those of the master draftsman Scythians . Both capture about the same mood with their pictures, but the Pedieus painter draws more coarsely and is all in all less tasteful than Scythians. In their favorite inscriptions, both praise an epilycus, which Phintias had drawn as an athlete on one of his vases. Some vase researchers want to recognize the late work of Scythians due to the stylistic similarity in the work of the Pedieus painter. Its name has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley made it distinguishable with an emergency name .

literature

John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 67.
John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², number 86.

Web links

Commons : Pedieus Painter - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the Union List of Artist Names Online (English)

Individual evidence

↑ inventory number 4855; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 86.5; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive

personal data
SURNAME	Pedieus painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pedieus painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] ventory number 4855; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 86.5; Entry in the database of the Beazley Archive