KX Painter

The KX Painter was an

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a ''loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building; an attic may also be called a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because attics fill the space between the ceiling of the ...

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 painter. He was active between 585 and 570 BC. Besides the

KY Painter 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 all ...

, the KX Painter was the main representative of the

Comast Group The Comast Group (also Komast Group) was a group of Attic vase painters in the black-figure style. The works of its members are dated to between 585 and 570/560 BC. The artists of the Komast Group are seen as the successors of the Gorgon Painter ...

, which succeeded the Gorgon Painter. His conventional name was allocated by

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 ...

. He is considered the better and chronologically somewhat earlier representative of the group. He was the first painter in

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to occasionally depict komasts on his vases, a motif adopted from

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. He mainly painted '' skyphoi'', '' lekanes'',