François Vase

…and Attic invention is the François Vase, produced about 570 bce and exported to Etruria in Italy. Its surface is divided into horizontal friezes containing hundreds of carefully drawn, tiny figures showing episodes from Greek myth. The professionalism of the Attic masters is so clearly displayed on this and other…

Her image appears on the François Vase, made by the potter Ergotimos about 570 bce.

The inscription on the celebrated François Vase in the Museo Archeologico in Florence—“Ergotimos made me; Cleitias painted me”—supplies the first positive evidence that, with only occasional exceptions, the two functions had become separate. When the name of a recognizable painter is not known from an inscription, it has become the…

…of the decorations on the François Vase. This vase, a volute krater painted in the black-figure style, is among the greatest treasures of Greek art. Dating from c. 570 bce, it was discovered in 1844 in an Etruscan tomb near Chiusi and named after its discoverer; it is now in…