Perizoma group

Feast scene on a stamnos in the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg (L 326); around 510 BC Chr.

Under the name perizoma group ( English Perizoma Group ) are the works of a group Attic - black-figure vase painters of the late v 6th century. Summarized . John D. Beazley counted the Michigan Painter , the Beaune Painter and the Vatican Group G 58 to this group .

The perizoma group got its name after the loincloths ( perizoma ) that many of the figures, athletes, arms dancers and symposiasts depicted on the group's vases wear. The drawings by the painters in the group are considered very distinctive. The figures, especially the athletes, seem quite powerless. In addition to numerous stamnoi , the forms of the group also include single-handled kantharoi , which are reminiscent of Etruscan forms and were therefore intended for export.

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, pp. 343-345.
• 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. 123.
• H. Alan Shapiro : Modest Athletes and Liberated Women. Etruscans on Attic Black-figure Vases . In: Beth Cohen (Ed.): Not the Classical Ideal. Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art . Leiden 2000, pp. 315-337.

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