ABSTRACT
The personality of the individual artist must also be taken into account in this analysis of the differences between schools. Texts, and their own signatures, have often given us their names. Sometimes the pride of the creative artist is naively shown: “Alxenor the Naxian made it; behold it 1” (6th-century stele). 2 They rivalled one another in skill, and Euthymides, the vase-painter, proclaims of his own work that Euphronius never did anything better (first quarter of the 5th century). 3
