Volute zone group

A group of vase painters who are no longer known by name and who worked in the second half of the 6th century BC is called the volute zone group . Was an important representative of the fikellura style of Eastern Greek vase painting at the time of the orientalizing style .

The volute zone group was next to the runner group the most important group of artists of the fikellura style. It stands chronologically at the end of the style and is considered its last stage. Unlike their predecessors, the representatives of the group no longer decorated their vessels in the eye-catching areas with figures, but reduced their decorations to large, circumferential volutes . Among them are often sickle-shaped friezes. The volute zone group had a large share in the fikellura production; a large part of the vases of the style can be assigned to them.

literature

• Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 99 ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 .