Peithinos

Berlin bowl of Peithinos

Peithinos ( Greek Πειθινος ) was an ancient Attic Greek vase painter of the red-figure style . His active time goes to the end of the 6th century BC. Set.

Only two works by Peithinos have survived with certainty. Both are signed, two other works, some of which are attributed to him by some researchers on the basis of stylistic comparisons, are very uncertain. Only the two signed works can therefore be safely assigned to Peithinos. The older piece is a shell fragment from the Cahn Collection in Basel. Here he signed - the name in retrograde letters - with Greek ΠΕΙΘΙΝ [ΟΣ] [Ε] ΓΡΑΦΕ ( German Peithinos has painted (it) ). You can see a satyr with wine vessels.

The second, completely preserved, bowl from the Berlin Collection of Antiquities is considered to be one of the most outstanding works of antique vase painting and its representation is also to be regarded as extraordinary. Due to the careful and detailed painting style of the garment details, he is compared to Phintias and the Sosias painter and stylistically located close to them. Here Peithinos is one of the first vase painters of the red-figure style, who designed the contents of his pictures over a large area; The inner and outer walls are more than half painted. The tondo shows the sea goddess Thetis , Peleus , snakes and a lion, the exterior picture shows a pederastic dance on one side, on the other side roughly the same picture, only here women and men. Although the couples look very uniform at first glance, at second glance they are designed very differently in many details. The signature with the same content on this bowl reads: Greek ΠΕΙΘΙΝΟΣΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ .

The design of the second bowl is very reminiscent of the Thalia painter . John D. Beazley stated that without the signature he would not have made any connection between the two works of Peithinos. Nevertheless, even before the second bowl became known, in his first edition of his Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters , published in 1942, he had established a connection between the then individual Peithinos bowl and some of the works of the Thalia painter. Nevertheless, he refrained from defining both as a painter personality. It is nevertheless possible that the Thalia Painter and Peithinos are identical and would also bring Peithinos into connection with Euphronios through the Thalia Painter's best work .

The name Peithinos is only used in this case for Athens. It is a descriptive name and means “the persuader”, which also fits the erotic mood of the Berlin bowl.

literature

John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 145.
Matthias Steinhart : Peithinos. In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 638.

Web links

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

Remarks

↑ John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1943, p. 81.
↑ on the connection Euphronios - Peithinos - Thalia painter see: Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , p. 40. and Guy Hedreen: The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1107118256 , pp. 288-290.
^ To the name vase of the Thalia painter: Antikensammlung Berlin, inventory number VI 3251; ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 113.7; Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 21, Berlin, Antiquarium 3, 19f., Pl. 122.1.5, 134.2, CH-Beck, Munich 1962.

personal data
SURNAME	Peithinos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Attic Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.

[1] John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1943, p. 81.

[2] the connection Euphronios - Peithinos - Thalia painter see: Martin Robertson: The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-330-10-6 , p. 40. and Guy Hedreen: The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1107118256 , pp. 288-290.

[3] To the name vase of the Thalia painter: Antikensammlung Berlin, inventory number VI 3251; ; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 113.7; Adolf Greifenhagen : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany 21, Berlin, Antiquarium 3, 19f., Pl. 122.1.5, 134.2, CH-Beck, Munich 1962.