The term Perizoma Group describes a group of
Attic black-figure
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, although there are ...
vase painters and a type of vase. They were active approximately 520–510 BC.
The group is named after the
perizoma (loincloth)
Perizoma (from Greek , from ''peri'' "around, about" and ''zoma'' "loin-cloth, drawers, band, belt") is a type of loincloth that originated with the Minoan civilization in Crete. Surviving depictions show it being worn by male and female acrobats ...
worn by many figures on vases painted by it, especially athletes, armed dancers and
symposiasts. The group often painted ''
stamnoi'', a vase shape introduced to
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...
around 520 BC. The drawing style of the small group is considered as highly distinctive. Its figures, especially athletes, often appear rather weak. Apart from ''stamnoi'', they painted single-handled ''
kantharoi'', resembling
Etruscan __NOTOC__
Etruscan may refer to:
Ancient civilization
*The Etruscan language, an extinct language in ancient Italy
*Something derived from or related to the Etruscan civilization
**Etruscan architecture
**Etruscan art
**Etruscan cities
** Etrusca ...
shapes and likely aimed for export to that area.
Bibliography
*
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...
: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956, p.
* John Beazley: ''Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters''. Oxford 1971. p.
*
John Boardman: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977 (
Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Band 1) , p. 123
Example
Beazley archive: Image of musicians wearing perizomata, Ahmolean Museum, Oxford
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Anonymous artists of antiquity
Ancient Greek vase painters
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