Lysippides Painter

He is considered the most significant pupil of Exekias, from whom he adopted not only his artistic style but also some important motifs, such as Ajax and Achilleus playing a board game.

His collaboration with the Andokides Painter, usually considered the inventor of red-figure vase painting, is unusual.

On seven bilingual vases, six belly amphorae and a cup (now in Palermo), he painted the red-figure side, while the Andokides Painter was responsible for the black-figure one.

Already John Beazley 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.

Especially showing in the late 6th century and early 5th as his neck-amphorae stand on the front lines of a series of vases.

He is almost always shown in his lion cape, with hood resting on the back of his black hair, defined with white paint.