KY Painter

Komast cup with komos scene, 575/565 BC.

The KY Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter. He was active between 585 and 570 BC.

Besides the KX Painter, the KY Painter was the main representative of the Komast Group, which succeeded the Gorgon Painter. His conventional name was allocated by John Beazley. He is considered the less talented and chronologically somewhat later representative of the group. Komasts are one of his favourite motifs. He mainly painted skyphoi, lekanes, kothones and Komast cups. He was the first artist to paint a column krater, which was to become a popular wine-mixing vessel.

Bibliography

John D. Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 31-33
John Michael Boardman (1977). Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen.: Ein Handbuch. p. 19. ISBN 978-3-8053-0233-3.

Ancient Greek vase painters

Geometric

Dipylon Master

Orientalizing

Black-figure

Comast Group	KX Painter KY Painter

Group E	Exekias

Gorgoneion Group	Cavalcade Painter

Leagros Group	Acheloos Painter Chiusi Painter

Little Masters	Group of Rhodes 12264

Red-figure

Pioneer Group	Epiktetos Euphronios Euthymides Oltos Phintias Smikros

Mannerists	Pan Painter

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