Euboean vase painting
The Euboean vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting.
The Iron Age pottery Euboea is divided into four phases: submykenisch ( 1125-1050 BC), Protogeometric ( 1050-900 BC), subprotogeometrisch ( 900-750 BC) and Late Geometric ( 750-700 v. AD). The finds in the cemeteries of Toumba, Skoubris and Palia and the settlement finds in Lefkandi and Xeropolis testify to the wealth of the island at that time. Although the conditions several times changed positively and negatively in the following decades and centuries, the ceramic hardly changed. The Protogeometric style had existed until the middle of the 8th century BC. From about 825 BC, an increased influence of Attic pottery is recognizable.
The Geometric vases Evia were high quality products. The production centers were Eretria and Lefkandi. The vessels were often covered with a thick, cream-colored slurry. First, the pottery painters looked to the Attic motifs, and later on those of Corinth. To 750 BC the Attic heavily embossed Cesnola Painter was active. He introduced the Attic figural style. Alone on Euboea shells were prepared which were decorated with hanging, concentric semicircles. In addition, only here color white top or white slip was used to enclose or fill ornaments. Then stopped for an extended period of Subgeometrische style and it took some time until the Oriental- style prevailed. After the complainant had prevailed, floral and other ornaments were in high demand. It was with polychrome effects, attached red and white, and experimented in a limited extent with figurative images (animals and humans). The influences came more from the works in Attica and Eastern Greece, than from the actual center of the oriental style, Corinth.
The Black-Figure painting was influenced by Corinth and especially by Attica. The demarcation of Attic vases is not always easy. In research is gone assume that the majority of the pottery was produced in Eretria. It mainly amphorae, lekythoi, hydria and plates were painted. Large-format amphoras were usually approach drawn as an image carrier for mythical scenes, about the adventures of Herakles or the Judgment of Paris. The large amphoras, derived from forms from the 7th century BC, have tapered lips and usually show images with high time reference. These were obviously grave vases that were made for deceased children before their wedding. Typical of the black-figure pottery from Eretria was the restrained use of engravings and the regular use of opaque white for the floral ornaments. In addition to images, which are based on Attica even wilder images, such as the rape of a deer are shown by a satyr or Heracles with centaurs and demons. The vases of the Dolphin Class were previously considered to be Attic, apply today but when euböisch. But her tone corresponds to any known source Eretria, which is why they may have been produced in Chalcis.
With some black-figure styles, the origin is disputed. So the Chalcidic vase painting was first made to Euboea, now you go more out of a production in Italy.