EUPHRONIUS  , the most noted of the

group of great vase-painters, who lived in Athens in the time of the Persian wars, and worked upon red-figured vases (see GREEK ART and CERAMICS) . There is a monograph by W . Klein dealing with the artist . As all the great paintings of Greece have disappeared, we are obliged to trust to the designs on vases for our knowledge of Greek drawing and composition . Euphronius is stiff and archaic in style, but his subjects are varied, his groupings original and striking, and his mastery of the 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 .