Dipylon Master
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The Diplyon Master was a Greek vase painter who was active circa 760 to circa 735 BCE. He worked in Athens, where he and his workshop produced large funerary vessels for those interred in the Dipylon cemetery, from whence his name. His work belongs to the very earliest stage of the Geometric Style, his vases served as grave markers and libation recepticles for aristocratic graves and as such are decorated with a depiction of the prothesis scene representing the mourning of the deceased. Almost 50 vases have been attributed to the Dipylon Master and his workshop. His images are the first representational art to be found in Greece since the collapse of the Mycenean palace culture.
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- Boardman, J., Early Greek Vase Painting: 11th-6th centuries BC, 1998
