KY painter

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.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, pp. 31-33
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 19.

Web links

Commons : KY Painter - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

personal data
SURNAME	KY painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.