active: 530 B.C. - 510 B.C. Athens
Vase-Painter

The Lysippides Painter decorated vases in the black-figure technique in Athens from about 530 to 510 B.C. He decorated a wide variety of vessels, from amphorai to cups, and favored horses and mythological scenes. His painting style is rather old-fashioned and clearly marks him as a pupil of the vase-painter Exekias. He is also known to have worked with the potter Andokides.

As well as his usual work, the Lysippides Painter decorated the black-figure side of several bilingual vases, vases decorated in both black- and red-figure techniques. The Andokides Painter, another vase-painter working with the potter Andokides, decorated the other side of these vases in the newly invented red-figure technique. Scholars have thought that the Lysippides Painter and the Andokides Painter might be one and the same. Yet the Lysippides Painter's conventional style seems at odds with the innovative quality of the work of the Andokides Painter.

As with most Greek vase-painters, the real name of the Lysippides Painter is unknown, and he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. He is named after a kalos inscription of the youth Lysippides on a vase now in London in the British Museum.