Sophilos

Sophilos (Ancient Greek: Σώφιλος; active about 590 – 570 BC) was an Attic potter and vase painter in the black-figure style.

He was one of the first painters to use additional colours at a grand scale, thus increasing the optical and artistic distinction between Corinthian and Attic vase painting.

He broke up established standard scenes, had figures act individually, and found clever and unconventional new ways of structuring the narrative.

As his artistic style progressed, he increasingly pushed ornamental designs into the margin, as his figural scenes became more and more important.

Stylistically, his work is close to that of the late Gorgon Painter, whose style he developed further, to be continued later by Klitias, and culminate in the François vase.

Sophilos' signature: "sofilos me grafsen" (“Sophilos painted me”)