He is trying to balance an amphora with a pointed bottom on his raised foot.
Attic bilingual amphora.
Herakles at the symposion.
Ca 520 510 b c.
Attributed to the andokides painter and lysippides painter.
He is accompanied in his labour by the goddess athena not shown.
Boston museum of fine arts size.
Several details regarding the artistic biography of the andokides painter have been suggested through connoisseurial studies of his work.
Heracles kneeling before the gates of hades chains the two headed guard dog cerberus.
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.
The ivy wreaths on his head and round the neck of the amphora add to the festive mood of the scene.
Munich staatliche antikensammlungen 2301.
520 b c from vulci.
Attic red figure andokides painter bilingual amphora view larger image museum.
Bibliography cohen beth attic bilingual vases and their painters 1978.
53 3cm amphora type a function.
Much patterning and some incision as in black figure.
Red figure no relief lines dilute brown lines or washes.
His himation folded across his leg is adding to the difficulty of the challenge.
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.
Side a of an attic red figure bilingual amphora painted by andokides ca.