The lysippides painter was an attic vase painter in the black figure style.
Attic bilingual amphora.
The hero wears a lion skin.
Red figure no relief lines dilute brown lines or washes.
The ivy wreaths on his head and round the neck of the amphora add to the festive mood of the scene.
Attributed to the andokides painter and lysippides painter.
He is trying to balance an amphora with a pointed bottom on his raised foot.
Bibliography cohen beth attic bilingual vases and their painters 1978.
Ca 520 510 b c.
520 b c from vulci.
Heracles kneeling before the gates of hades chains the two headed guard dog cerberus.
Staatliche antikensammlung munich inv.
On the belly amphora by the andokides painter munich 2301 eye cups usually feature a black figure image on the interior and red figure motifs on the external.
Munich staatliche antikensammlungen 2301.
Herakles at the symposion.
53 3cm amphora type a function.
Boston museum of fine arts size.
He is accompanied in his labour by the goddess athena not shown.
His himation folded across his leg is adding to the difficulty of the challenge.
Much patterning and some incision as in black figure.
Several details regarding the artistic biography of the andokides painter have been suggested through connoisseurial studies of his work.
Attic red figure andokides painter bilingual amphora view larger image museum.