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Andokides Painter

Description
HERAKLES DRIVING A BULL TO SACRIFICE c. 525-520 BCE. Red-figure decoration on an amphora. Ceramic, height of amphora 20 15/16" (53.2 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry Lillie Pierce Fund (99.538).

Black-figure technique
Slip was used to silhouette shapes of figures against unpainted clay.
Details were incised using a sharp tool.

Red-figure technique
Painters covered the pot with slip but reserved space for figures.
Instead of engraving details, painters drew using liquid slip.
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