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Hades carries off Persephone, detail of Red-figure Volute Krater, c380 BC. By the Iliupersis Painter Ornate Apulian style, held at British Museum. Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. It developed in Athens around 530 B.C. and remained in use until the late 3rd century B.C.