Komos in Archaizing Style
The decoration painted by the Triptolemos Painter features five nude figures, Komasts; three, including a woman, are on this krater side. Our characters are dancing, and their dance is rendered with archaizing gestures and postures. On one side, they call to mind the figurative repertoire, attitudes and themes recurring in more or less contemporary artists - such as the Brygos Painter and the ceramographers near to him, Makron or the Painter of Antiphon, but, on the outer side, the not excessively agitated postures of the komasts portrayed with the feet always adhering to the ground, the monumentality and solemnity with which their naked bodies emerge from the black surface of the vase derive from the masters of the large vases of the late Archaic period.
CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red-figured column krater
BC 480 ca.
Attributed to The Triptolemos Painter
Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, inv No. 50532
Komos in Archaizing Style
The decoration painted by the Triptolemos Painter features five nude figures, Komasts; three, including a woman, are on this krater side. Our characters are dancing, and their dance is rendered with archaizing gestures and postures. On one side, they call to mind the figurative repertoire, attitudes and themes recurring in more or less contemporary artists - such as the Brygos Painter and the ceramographers near to him, Makron or the Painter of Antiphon, but, on the outer side, the not excessively agitated postures of the komasts portrayed with the feet always adhering to the ground, the monumentality and solemnity with which their naked bodies emerge from the black surface of the vase derive from the masters of the large vases of the late Archaic period.
CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic red-figured column krater
BC 480 ca.
Attributed to The Triptolemos Painter
Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, inv No. 50532