CHC group

The surrounding picture shows a team of four, amazons and sphinxes, turning forwards, around 500 BC. BC, today in the State Collection of Antiquities in Munich

The CHC group is a group of Attic vase painters who worked in the black-figure style in the early 5th century BC. Were active.

The painters of the CHC group inserted their figures - mostly moving cars or advertisements for love - in narrow ribbons. The group got its emergency name after the English first letters for the designations of its subjects: chariot and courting . For them, image carriers were skyphoi . The group shows pictures of higher quality than contemporary and comparable painters, groups and classes such as the Leafless group or the Haimon group . The CHC group is closely related to the Pistias class .

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956.
• John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 164.