Original sentence: 620 to 480 BCE.At Athens, researchers have found the earliest known examples of vase painters signing their work, the first being a Dinos by Sophilos (illus.By the mid 6th century BCE, the quality of Corinthian ware had fallen away significantly to the extent that some Corinthian potters would disguise their pots with a red slip in imitation of superior Athenian ware.Circa 520 BCE the red-figure technique was developed and was gradually introduced in the form of the bilingual vase by tthe Andokides Painter, Oltos and Psiax.Many scholars consider the finest work in the style to belong Exekias and the Amasis Painter, who are noted for their feeling for composition and narrative.Red-figure quickly eclipsed black-figure yet in the unique form of the Panathanaic Amphora, black-figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century BCE.The animal motifs have greater prominence on the vase and show the greatest experimentation in the early phase of Corinthian black-figure
Edited sentence: 620 to 480 BC.By the mid 6th century BC the quality of Corinthian ware had fallen away significantly to the extent that some Corinthian potters would disguise their pots with a red slip in imitation of superior Athenian ware.Circa 520 BC the red-figure technique was developed and was gradually introduced in the form of the bilingual vase by those trailblazers the Andokides Painter, Oltos and Psiax.It is at Athens we first find the phenomenon of vase painters signing their work, the first known being a Dinos by Sophilos (illus.It was to be at Athens that black-figure would reach its full potential.Red-figure quickly eclipsed black-figure yet in the unique form of the Panathanaic Amphora black-figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century BC.The Animal motifs have greater prominence on the vase and show the greatest experimentation in the early phase of Corinthian black-figure.The finest work in the style belongs to Exekias and the Amasis Painter whose feeling for composition and narrative mark them out from the jobbing artisans of their contemporaries