The Lost Chalice: The Real-Life Chase for One of the World's Rarest Masterpieces—a Priceless 2,500-Year-Old Artifact Depicting the Fall of Troy

by Vernon Silver

Euphronios and his cohorts established history’s earliest known “school” of art.

The entire Western concept of the artist was just beginning to come to life.

This would be an intresting thing to write a story about... a society on the cusp of developing the concept of "artist"