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Greek potter and vase painter of the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. Exekias was the most outstanding representative of the late black figure style. His works include painted amphorae, for example, Achilles in Battle With Penthesilea and Memnon With a Negro. And Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion...

... masters were Clitias, Exekias, and Amasis. Around 530 B.C. There occurred the transition to red-figure vase painting (a black background with the figures having the colors of the clay; a subsidiary role was played by ornamentation; there was an abundance of genre and mythological scenes). Red-figure vase painting permitted the forms to be painted in greater ...