Euphiletos Painter
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The Euphiletos Painter was an Attic
Attica
Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...

 black-figure vase painter active in the second half of the sixth century BC.


He was one of the better-quality vase painters of the black-figure style in Athens
Athens
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. He is known especially for his Panathenaic prize amphorae. In them, his work indicated a chronological development influenced to quite an extent by red-figure vase painting, a style developing during his lifetime. While his early works still showed athletes in unrealistic movement stances, the quality of the depcitions improved considerably over time in this regard, especially of his ioncreasing control of internal detail. Besides human depcitions, this is particularly well visible in shield devices. His work on vases other than prize amphorae is of lesser quality and often depicts the then popular motif of chariot races. Most of his non-prize amphora work dates to about 520 BC, but some pieces are estimated to be up to 20 years earlier or later. He collaborated with the potter Pamphaios
Pamphaios
Pamphaios was an Attic vase painter active around the end of the 6th century BC.Pampphaios was the successor of Nikosthenes in that artist's workshop, and thus took over from one of the most influential and creative potters of antiquity...

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