Lysippides Painter
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Attica
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vase painter in the black-figure style. He was active around 530 to 510 BC. His real name is not known.
Life and work
His conventional name is derived from a kalos inscriptionKalos inscription
The Kalos inscription was a form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity, common between 550 and 450 BC, and usually found on symposion vessels. The word καλός means "beautiful"; here it had an erotic connotation, and the inscription took the form of a youth's name, in the...
on a neck amphora in the British Museum
British Museum
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(B 211). He is considered the most significant pupil of Exekias
Exekias
Exekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. Most of his vases, however, were exported to other regions of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, while some of his other works remained in Athens. Exekias worked mainly with a...
, from whom he adopted not only his artistic style but also some important motifs, such as Ajax
Ajax (mythology)
Ajax or Aias was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus , he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater...
and Achilleus playing a board game. He also frequently painted scenes involving the hero Herakles. In total, about 30 known vases are ascribed to him.
His collaboration with the Andokides Painter
Andokides Painter
The Andokides painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter who was active from 530 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned; he is named after Andokides, the potter for whom he worked. He is believed to be the inventor of the red figure style of vase painting.-Beginnings of his art:The...
, usually considered the inventor of red-figure vase painting is unusual. On seven bilingual vases
Bilingual vase painting
Bilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient Greek vase painting. The term, derived from linguistics is an essentially metaphorical one; it describes vases that are painted both in the black-figure and in the red-figure techniques...
, six belly amphorae and a cup (now in Palermo
Palermo
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), he painted the red-figure side, while the Andokides Painter was responsible for the black-figure one. At times, the subjects painted by both are identical. It remains disputed amongst scholars whether both painters are identical and merely reprsent one artist using both techniques. Already John Beazley
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley was an English classical scholar.Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Beazley attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a close friend of the poet James Elroy Flecker. After graduating in 1907, Beazley was a student and tutor in Classics at Christ Church, and in 1925 he...
saw them as separate artists, an argument later developed by Beth Cohen and Heide Mommsen. The identity of the two painters is supported by Konrad Schauenburg, Herbert Marwitz and John Boardman
John Boardman
Jack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, is an American former professor of physics at Brooklyn College.- Academic career :...
. Martin Robinson and others remained undecided.
bilingualBilingual vase paintingBilingual vase painting is a special form of ancient Greek vase painting. The term, derived from linguistics is an essentially metaphorical one; it describes vases that are painted both in the black-figure and in the red-figure techniques...
belly amphorae, painted in collaboration with the Andokides PainterAndokides PainterThe Andokides painter was an ancient Athenian vase painter who was active from 530 to approximately 515 BCE. His work is unsigned; he is named after Andokides, the potter for whom he worked. He is believed to be the inventor of the red figure style of vase painting.-Beginnings of his art:The...
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, Museo Civico Archeologico
- bilingual belly amphora 151
- Front: Dionysos between maenadMaenadIn Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus , the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones"...
and satyrSatyrIn Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — "satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing....
s, back: Herakles and the Nemean LionNemean LionThe Nemean lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. It was eventually killed by Heracles. It could not be killed with mortal weapons because its golden fur was impervious to attack...
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Test/Vases/ASP/ViewDetails.asp?Vnum=200010- BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
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- Boston
- Front: Dionysos between maenad
- bilingual belly amphora 99.538
- Front and back: Herakles and the Cretan bull http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Boston%2099.538 http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=153401&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=99%2E538&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=2&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1
- bilingual belly amphora 01.8037
Front and back: Achilles
Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.Plato named Achilles the handsomest of the heroes assembled against Troy....
and Ajax
Ajax (mythology)
Ajax or Aias was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus , he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater...
playing a board game http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Boston%2001.8037http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=153408&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=01%2E8037&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=2&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1
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- bilingual belly amphora B 193
- Front: Herakles and the Neman Lion between AthenaAthenaIn Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
and Iolaos, back: Ajax and Achilles palying a board game http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=London%20B%20193 http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Test/Vases/ASP/ViewDetails.asp?Vnum=200008- MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
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- Munich
- Front: Herakles and the Neman Lion between Athena
- bilingual belly amphora 2301
- Front and back: Herakles at the symposion http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Munich%202301
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- Paris
- Front and back: Herakles at the symposion http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Munich%202301
- bilingual belly amphora F 204
- Front: Herakles and KerberosKerberosKerberos may refer to:* Cerberus, the hound of Hades * Kerberos saga, a science fiction series by Mamoru Oshii* Kerberos , a computer network authentication protocol* Kerberos Dante, a character from Saint Seiya...
, back: Dionysos with kantharosKantharosA kantharos or cantharus is a type of Greek pottery used for drinking. It is characterized by its high swung handles which extend above the lip of the pot.The god Dionysus had a kantharos which was never empty....
between maenad and satyrs http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043&query=Louvre%20F%20203 http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=7570
- Front: Herakles and Kerberos
other works (selection)
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, Akademisches KunstmuseumAkademisches KunstmuseumAkademisches Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Bonn, Germany. It is the oldest museum in Bonn and houses the antique collection of the University of Bonn with more than 500 antique statues and reliefs, and over 2,000 originals...
- belly amphora 62b
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- Cambridge
- eye-cupEye-cupEye-cup is the term describing a specific cup type in ancient Greek pottery, distinguished by pairs of eyes painted on the external surface. Classified as kylikes in terms of shape, they were especially widespread in Athens and Chalkis in the second half of the sixth century BC.The bowl of the...
GR 12.1937- Front: Dionysos with KantharosKantharosA kantharos or cantharus is a type of Greek pottery used for drinking. It is characterized by its high swung handles which extend above the lip of the pot.The god Dionysus had a kantharos which was never empty....
between two satyrs, back: Herakles and Kyknos, interior: gorgonGorgonIn Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a terrifying female creature. The name derives from the Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a...
eion http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Test/Vases/ASP/ViewDetails.asp?Vnum=302232- London, British Museum
- Front: Dionysos with Kantharos
- neck amphora B 211
- eye-cup B 426
- oinochoe B 492
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- Malibu
- psykterPsykterA psykter is a type of Greek pot that is characterized by a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot. It was used as a wine cooler. The psykter would be filled with wine, and then be placed in a krater full of cold water or ice....
96.AE.94 http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=35467- MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Pushkin MuseumPushkin MuseumThe Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour....
- Moscow
- belly amphora II 1 B 70
- Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen
- neck amphora 1478
- neck amphora 1575
- eye-cup 2080
- Front: Herakles and ApolloApolloApollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
fighting over a tripodTripodA tripod is a portable three-legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The word comes from the Greek tripous, meaning "three feet". A tripod provides stability against downward forces, horizontal forces and moments about the...
, back: Herakles and the Nemean lion, Interior: gorgoneion- OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean MuseumThe Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...
- Oxford
- Front: Herakles and Apollo
- neck amphora 208
- belly mphora 1965.100 (formerly Northwick, Spencer-Churchill collection)
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, Museo Archeologico Regionale
- Palermo
- bilingual eye-cup V 650 (2051)
- warriors and archers (signed by the potter AndokidesAndokidesAndokides was a famous potter of Ancient Greece. The painter of his pots was an anonymous artist, the Andokides painter, who is recognized as the creater of the red-figure style, beginning around 530 BC. His work is compared with Exekias, who was said to have created the most detailed and best...
)http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Test/Vases/ASP/ViewDetails.asp?Vnum=200014- Paris, Louvre
- warriors and archers (signed by the potter Andokides
- hydriaHydriaA hydria is a type of Greek pottery used for carrying water. The hydria has three handles. Two horizontal handles on either side of the body of the pot were used for lifting and carrying the pot. The third handle, a vertical one, located in the center of the other two handles, was used when...
F 294- AthenaAthenaIn Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
mounting a chariot in the presence of Herakles, Dionysos, Apollon and HermesHermesHermes is the great messenger of the gods in Greek mythology and a guide to the Underworld. Hermes was born on Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of the cunning of thieves, of orators and...
(potter probably Andokides) http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=7008- Pregny, Baron E. de Rothschild
- Athena
- belly amphora
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, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
- Rome
- belly amphora 24998
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- Zurich
- neck amphora ETH 7