KY painter

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Komast bowl with Komos scene , 575/565 BC Chr.

The KY painter was a vase painter of the Attic black-figure style. He was between 585 and 570 BC. Active.

The KY painter was next to the KX painter the most important representative of the Komasten group , which succeeded the Gorgon painter . He got his emergency name from John D. Beazley . He is considered the worse and chronologically somewhat later representative of the Komast group. Comasts are also one of his favorite pictorial subjects. He mainly painted skyphoi , lekanen , kothone and comast bowls . He was the first artist to create a column crater that would become the most popular wine mixing vessel.

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