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Makron was an
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vaseThe vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. It can be made from a number of materials including ceramics and glass. The vase is often decorated and thus used to extend the beauty of its contents....
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ca. 490-480 BC. Though only one signed example of his work is known to have survived, some 350 vases have been attributed to him by
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, making him one of the best surviving painters of the red-figure period.
Makron is strongly associated with the potter Hieron. Beazley attributes all but three vases signed by Hieron as potter to Makron as painter, whereas earlier scholarship did not associate the two.
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was the first to do so.
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