( fl c. 525–c. 515/510 BC). Greek vase painter. He was named after the potter Andokides, by whom he was employed, and he was the first great practitioner, and probably the inventor, of Attic Red-figure. His works survive on fewer than 20 vases (all either amphorae or cups), almost half of which are bilingual. Their Black-figure pictures are probably attributable to another artist, the LYSIPPIDES PAINTER, who began as a pupil of the Black-figure master EXEKIAS. The Andokides Painter’s earliest works, by contrast, are on Red-figure amphorae (New York, Met., 63.11.6; Berlin, Antikenmus. 2159; Paris, Louvre, G 1) and closer in style (e.g. the treatment of energetic, full-bodied figures and stacked drapery folds) and subject-matter (e.g. Herakles and Apollo Struggling for the Tripod ) to sculptural decoration from the Siphnian Treasury (see DELPHI, §2), than to Black-figure paintings.

Part of the Vase painters family