TheYZ Group is an assumed group of ancient GreekAtticvase painters of thered-figure style.

Individual artists can only be identified with difficulty. The group was given its conventional name byJohn D. Beazley during his studies of Attic red-figure was painting. He named the group "YZ" because he recognised their work as the latest known figural red-figure paintings. In analogy with the alphabet, "YZ" stands for the end of red-figure painting inAthens. The group was active around 320 BC. The exact date of the end of red-figure painting remains unclear, because no detailed chronology can be developed from the vases. The fact that YZ vases are relatively numerous may indicate that their production, though short in duration, was large in output. They depicterotes, women andNike. Thetondos of bowls resemble works from the early 4th century, but are more casual and coarse in execution. Apart from bowls,askoi,pyxides and smalllebetes gamikoi were also painted.

• John D. Beazley:Attic red-figure vase-painters. Oxford 1963.
• John Boardman:Rotfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Die klassische Zeit, von Zabern, Mainz 1991 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Band 48), especially p. 202f.ISBN 3-8053-1262-8.

• Ancient Greek vase painters
• Anonymous artists of antiquity

• Year of birth unknown