In the late 500s B.C., the Phineus Painter decorated pottery in a style that scholars call "Chalkidian." In the mid-500s B.C., a Greek vase-painter, probably from Chalkis on the island of Euboea, established a pottery workshop somewhere in Italy, either in one of the Greek colonies in the south or perhaps in Etruria. Eventually a second generation led by the Phineus Painter took over this workshop
