[[File:Stamnos with chariot races, Perizoma Group (Michigan Painter), Attic, c. 510 BC, L 327 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05507.jpg|thumb|right|Stamnos with chariot races, Perizoma Group, c. 510 BC]] The term '''Perizoma Group''' describes a group of [[Attica|Attic]] [[black-figure vase painting|black-figure]] vase painters and a type of vase. They were active approximately 520–510 BC.
The group is named after the [[perizoma (loincloth)]] worn by many figures on vases painted by it, especially athletes, armed dancers and [[symposion|symposiasts]]. The group often painted ''[[stamnos|stamnoi]]'', a vase shape introduced to [[Athens]] 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 ''[[kantharos|kantharoi]]'', resembling [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] shapes and likely aimed for export to that area.
== Bibliography == * [[John Beazley]]: ''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 (art historian)|John Boardman]]: ''Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch'', Mainz 1977 ([[Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt]], Band 1) {{ISBN|3-8053-0233-9}}, p. 123
==Example== *[http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/recordDetails.asp?recordCount=20&useQuery=100&start=0 Beazley archive: Image of musicians wearing perizomata, Ahmolean Museum, Oxford] {{Greek vase painters}}
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[[Category:Anonymous artists of antiquity]] [[Category:Ancient Greek vase painters]] [[Category:Year of birth unknown]]