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Sophilos
( fl c. 600–c. 570 BC). Greek vase painter. Like other contemporary Athenian Black-figure artists, he imitated the Corinthian animal style, decorating his vases mainly or entirely with mixed processions of wild, tame and mythological creatures. Such friezes were easily copied, so that it is often difficult to ascribe them to specific artists. However, between 40 and 46 large pots or fragments are attributed to Sophilos. His animal friezes are executed in a lively and careless style, so that his importance is due to his rarer many-figured friezes depicting mythological subjects. These are more ambitious and more detailed than any earlier pictures of myths, and several are signed by the artist, making Sophilos the first Greek vase painter whose real name is known.
Part of the Vase painters family
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