Komast group

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The Komasten group was an artist group of Attic vase painters of the black-figure style . The works of its members are dated between 585 and 570/60 BC. Dated.

The artists of the Komasten group are considered to be the successors of the Gorgo painter . The two most important representatives of the group were the KX painter and the KY painter , who was to be dated somewhat later . They painted new types of vases or, for the vase painters of Athens, new types. They decorated kothone and lekanen particularly often . From Corinth , the most important metropolis of Greek vase painting at that time, they took over the comast bowls and skyphoi . The latter were called kotyle . The Colonette Crater was introduced by the KY painter . Another type of bowl that is becoming particularly popular at this time is the kantharos . The painters also took over the representations of Komasten from Corinth , after which the group also got its emergency name . It is also the main pictorial subject of the group. With the representation of the comast scenes, the Attic painters were able to achieve the artistic level of the average Corinthian vases for the first time. While the older KX painter still mainly painted depictions of animals and only a few comast scenes, the motif becomes the standard for the KY painter and other, poorer painters in the group. It is unclear to what extent the painters in the group really belonged together. It is possible that they all belonged to the same pottery workshop. The group influenced other Attic vase painters who followed them, including the Heidelberg painter .

Works by the Komasten group were not only found in Attica, but were apparently one of the first export hits for Attic ceramics. Vases and fragments were found in Naukratis , Rhodes , central Italy and Taranto and even in Corinth.

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