Pheidippos (vase painter)

Pheidippos ( Greek  Φείδιππος ) was an Attic vase painter of the transition period between the black and red figure style . His works are dated around 525 to 515 BC. Dated.

Pheidippus is known exclusively as a bowl painter . His name is handed down on two signed bowls. Further bowls are assigned to him based on stylistic similarities. Apart from the signatures, there is only one other inscription in the painter's work: Μ [Ε] ΝΙΣ ΚΑ [ΛΟΣ] ( Menis kalos - Menis is beautiful , favorite inscription ) on a bowl in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich . Three of the vases painted by Pheidippos are signed by the potter Hischylos . So it stands to reason that Pheidippos worked in his workshop. Stylistically he is close to the vase painter Epiktetos , who also worked with Hischylos.

Twelve of his bowls are eye bowls . Here Pheidippos shows the two variants both with noses and with figures between the eyes. Only once does he depict more than one figure on the outside. Instead, he does without one of the pairs of eyes on one side of a vase. The bowls are painted bilingually , which is common at this time. The outer sides are painted with red figures, the inside ( tondi ) with black figures. On the inside pictures, Pheidippos almost always shows pictures of young men and men, mostly comasts or athletes. There are only four known depictions of mythological content on the interior paintings. There are twice about Dionysus , a satyr and the Minotaur . On the outside, athletes (especially boxers, discus throwers and gunmen) are his favorite subjects. It shows warriors less often. The figures of Pheidippos usually do not look very elegant and are generally thick in shape. All the bowls whose location is known come from Vulci .

List of works

Location	Museum / inventory number	publication	Beazley Archive Pottery Database	motive	comment	image
Vulci	Munich, State Collections of Antiquities 2582 (J 111)	ARV²165 No. 1	200248	equestrian	Favorite inscription Menis
Vulci	Würzburg, antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum L 467	ARV² 165 No. 2	200299	Young man (Komos?)	Signature of Hischylus as a potter
Vulci	Munich, State Collections of Antiquities 2583 (J 1232)	ARV² 165 No. 3	200300	Minotaur
Vulci	Munich, State Collections of Antiquities 2584 (J 1023)	ARV² 165 No. 4	200301	Young man, Komos
Vulci	Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig T 486	ARV² 165 No. 5	200302	running Man
	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 41.162.8	ARV² 165 No. 6	200303	Dionysus
	Rome, Villa Giulia + Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 12B106 / 4B29 Heidelberg, Museum of Antiquities of Heidelberg University 8	ARV² 165 No. 7	200304	Satyr	Fragments, signature of Heschylus
	Rome, Villa Giulia	ARV²165 No. 8	200305	Running youth	Fragments
	Heidelberg, Museum of Antiquities of the University of Heidelberg 15	ARV²165 No. 9	200348		fragment
	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1966.454	ARV²166 No. 10	200329		Fragments
Vulci	London, British Museum E 6 (1846.5-12.2)	ARV² 166 No. 11	200378	Scythian archer	signed Іσχυλος έποίησεν, Φείδιππος έγραφε, instead of the second pair of athletes' eyes on the outside
	Paris, Louvre CP 11223	ARV² 166 No. 12	201534		Fragment, signed
	Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 83.AE.240		43294	Dionysus
	London, art trade, Sotheby’s	Sotheby's Antiquities 13./14. July 1981, No. 276	7106	Satyr
	New York, Art Dealers, Hesperia Arts	Hesperia Arts Auction, Antiquities November 27, 1990, No. 113	41869	Athlete with Halteres

literature

• Pheidippus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 540 .
• Wilhelm Kraiker : Pheidippos . In: Athenische Mitteilungen 55, 1930, pp. 167–180.
• Reinhard Lullies : Pheidippos 5. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIX, 2, Stuttgart 1938, Sp. 1938 f.
• John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. 2nd Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp 44.164-169 [= ARV² ].
• Arturo Stenico: Pheidippos . In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Volume 6, Rome 1965, p. 116.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 337.
• Beth Cohen : Attic bilingual vases and their painters. Garland, New York 1978, ISBN 0-8240-3220-9 , pp. 438-464.
• Matthias Steinhart : Pheidippos I . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , pp. 236-237.

Web links

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

• Pheidippos at the British Museum