Red figure no relief lines dilute brown lines or washes.
Attic bilingual amphora.
Attributed to the andokides painter and lysippides painter.
Several details regarding the artistic biography of the andokides painter have been suggested through connoisseurial studies of his work.
Boston museum of fine arts size.
53 3cm amphora type a function.
He is trying to balance an amphora with a pointed bottom on his raised foot.
Herakles at the symposion.
Storage and display technique.
Bilingual vase painting was almost entirely restricted to belly amphorae of type b and to eye cups in some cases either side of an amphora bore a depiction of the same motif one in black figure the other in red figure e g.
The lysippides painter was an attic vase painter in the black figure style.
His himation folded across his leg is adding to the difficulty of the challenge.
The ivy wreaths on his head and round the neck of the amphora add to the festive mood of the scene.
520 b c from vulci.
Munich staatliche antikensammlungen 2301.
Bibliography cohen beth attic bilingual vases and their painters 1978.
Ca 520 510 b c.
Staatliche antikensammlung munich inv.
The hero wears a lion skin.
Attic red figure andokides painter bilingual amphora view larger image museum.
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.
Heracles kneeling before the gates of hades chains the two headed guard dog cerberus.