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EUPHRONIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 898 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUPHRONIUS  , the most noted of the

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group of
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great vase-painters, who lived in Athens in the time of the Persian
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wars, and worked upon red-figured vases (see GREEK
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ART and CERAMICS) . There is a monograph by W . Klein dealing with the artist . As all the great paintings of
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Greece have disappeared, we are obliged to
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trust to the designs on vases for our knowledge of Greek
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drawing and composition . Euphronius is stiff and archaic in style, but his subjects are varied, his groupings
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original and striking, and his mastery of the
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line decided . In their way, the vases which he painted will hold their own in comparison with those of any nation; for simplicity, truthfulness and charm they can scarcely be matched .

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