MAKE A MEME View Large Image Lysippides Painter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 4812 - Side A.jpg The Lysippides Painter is renowned for his work with another vase-painter the Andokides Painter They produced remarkable bilingual vases on which the Lysippides Painter ...
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Keywords: Lysippides Painter - Black-Figure Amphora - Walters 4812 - Side A.jpg The Lysippides Painter is renowned for his work with another vase-painter the Andokides Painter They produced remarkable bilingual vases on which the Lysippides Painter painted one side in the black-figure technique and the Andokides Painter painted the same image in the newly developed red-figure technique on the other side On this vase however we have an example of the Lysippides Painter's early work in black-figure On the front Hermes escorts a woman towards the wine-god Dionysus whose satyr and maenad companions stand behind On the back is a typical departure scene in which an armed warrior mounts his chariot as companions see him off ca 530 BC Archaic terracotta at handles cm 55 33 ; at top cm 23 diam accession number 48 12 17198 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome no 219 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Lysippides Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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