Boidas
Boidas (Ancient Greek: Βοίδας; sometimes transliterated as Bedas) was a sculptor of ancient Greece who lived around the 4th-century BCE, and was likely born in Sicyon.
He was the son and pupil of Lysippos.[1] We still have a bronze attributed to him, depicting a praying youth, the Berlin Adorant, that some scholars believe is a bronze of a copy of Boidas's original.[2][3][4][5] Scholars argue over the extent to which we can take the praying boy to be indicative of Lysippos's style, how much the son would have taken from the father, and whether the bronze we have today is even indicative of Boidas's style versus that of a copyist, but in any case it is unambiguous that the Boidas sculpture is considered characteristic of the best sculpture of the 4th century BCE.[6]
He had two brothers, Euthyktates and Daippos, who were also sculptors.[7]
References
- ^ Frel, Jiří (1982). The Getty Bronze. J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 40. ISBN 9780892360390. Retrieved 2026-03-15.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.8. s. 19
- ^ Söderlind, Martin (2002). Late Etruscan Votive Heads from Tessennano. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider. p. 215. ISBN 9788882651862. Retrieved 2026-03-15.
- ^ Ihne, Wilhelm (1870). "Bedas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 479.
- ^ Kjellberg, Ernst; Säflund, Gösta (1968). Greek and Roman Art, 3000 B.C. to A.D. 550. Faber & Faber. p. 151. Retrieved 2026-03-15.
- ^ Wescoat, Bonna Daix (1996). Brown, John Carter; Shapiro, Michael Edward (eds.). Rings: Five Passions in World Art. Abrams & Chronicle Books. p. 200. Retrieved 2026-03-15.
- ^ "Lysippus". Encyclopedia of World Art: Pakistan to Rembrandt. McGraw-Hill. 1966. p. 159. Retrieved 2026-03-15.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ihne, William (1870). "Bedas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 479.