( fl c. 530–c. 510 BC). Greek vase painter. An Attic Black-figure artist active during the transition from Black-figure to Red-figure, he is named after a kalos inscription on a neck amphora (London, BM, B 211) praising the youth Lysippides; some 30 vases, including amphorae, hydriae and cups, are ascribed to him. His most discussed works are Black-figure paintings on seven bilingual vases: a cup bearing the potter Andokides’ signature and six amphorae, with Red-figure pictures attributed to the ANDOKIDES PAINTER, the probable inventor of the new Red-figure technique. The collaboration of two painters on the same vase was uncommon, so that some scholars believe that the Andokides Painter and the Lysippides Painter are the same artist. However, the conventional nature of the Black-figure paintings seems out of keeping for a brilliant innovator. Although he was the major follower of EXEKIAS, the Lysippides Painter’s pictures are often derivative and not of the highest quality. His Exekian style was at first awkward (e.g. amphora, Rome, Villa Giulia, 24998), then refined (e.g. eye cup, Palermo, Mus. Reg., V 650) and finally sketchy and somewhat overblown (e.g. belly amphora, London, BM, B 193).

Part of the Vase painters family

• Lysippides Painter
  • Nikosthenes
  • Vase painters, §II: Antimenes Painter
  • collaboration
    • Vase painters, §II: Andokides Painter
  • works
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(d): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 520–c 480 BC
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(a): Attic Red-figure pottery: The first generation