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Category:	Ancient Art
Name:	Andokides Painter Greek Art
Birth Year:	c. 525 BCE
Death Year:	na
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Andokides Painter! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Greek potter, 6th c. BCE. Known for his Red Figure style. The red-figure style began to replace the older black figure technique. There are some vases on which the two appear side by side. On those vases by the potter Andokides that are half red-figure and half black-figure, the artist of the red-figure side has been identified as the Andokides Painter, and the artist of the black-figure side has been identified as the Lysippides Painter. It is at about this time that painting on white ground made its appearance, and the potter Andokides applied a white slip to the vertical surface of the mouth and asked a black-figure painter - possibly Psiax, who was well-versed in a miniature style - to decorate the surface with the wrestling scene of Herakles and the Nemean lion in the presence of Athena and Hermes. [Adapted from Metropolitan Museum of Art] The Great Books: Greek Pottery. Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Greek Vases. For rare and hard to find titles we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Greek Pottery. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions!
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