Euboean vase painting
The Euboean vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting .
The Iron Age pottery of Evia is divided into four phases: Sub- Mycenaean (1050/30 to 1020/00 BC), Protogeometric (1050 to 900 BC), Subprotogeometric (900 to 750 BC) and Late Geometric (750 BC) until 700 BC). The finds on the cemetery of Toumba , Skoubris and Palia as well as the settlement finds in Lefkandi and Xeropolis bear witness to the wealth of the island at that time. Although the conditions changed positively and negatively several times in the following decades and centuries, the ceramics hardly changed. The protogeometric style had until the middle of the 8th century BC. Existed. From around 825 BC. An increased influence of Attic ceramics is recognizable.
The Geometric Vases of Evia were high quality products. The production centers were Eretria and Lefkandi. The vessels were sometimes coated with a thick, cream-colored slip. Initially, the pottery painters oriented themselves to the Attic motifs, later also to those of Corinth . Around 750 BC The Cesnola painter , who was strongly Attic, was active. He introduced the Attic figure style. On Euboea alone, bowls were made that were decorated with hanging, concentric semicircles. In addition, only here was white body paint or white slip used to frame or fill in ornaments. The Subgeometric Style then persisted for a long time and it took a certain amount of time before the Orientalizing Style could prevail. However, after it had established itself, floral and other ornaments were very popular. We experimented with polychrome effects, superimposed red and white, and to a limited extent with figurative images (animals and people). The influences came more from the work in Attica and Eastern Greece than from the actual center of the orientalizing style, Corinth.
The Black-Figure Ceramics was influenced by Corinth and above all of Attica. Differentiating it from Attic vases is not always easy. Research assumes that most of the pottery was made in Eretria . Mainly amphorae , lekyths , hydrates and plates were painted. Large-format amphorae were mostly used as image carriers for mythical scenes, such as the adventures of Heracles or the judgment of Paris . The large amphorae, which differ from shapes dating back to the 7th century BC. Chr. Derive, have conical lips and mostly show pictures with wedding related. These were obviously grave vases that were made for children who died before their wedding. Typical of the black-figure ceramics from Eretria was the restrained use of incisions and the regular use of opaque white for the floral ornaments. In addition to images that are based on attic, wilder images, such as the rape of a deer by a satyr or Heracles together with centaurs and demons, are shown. The vases of the dolphin group used to be considered Attic, but are now considered Euboean. However, their tone does not correspond to any known source in Eretria, which is why they may have been produced in Chalkis .
The origin of some black-figure styles is controversial. So the Chalcidian vase painting was initially referred to Euboea, now it is more likely that it was made in Italy.
literature
- John Boardman : Early Greek Vase Painting. 11th - 6th Century BC. A Handbook (= World of Art ). Thames and Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 0-500-20309-1 , p. 215 f.
- Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 , pp. 70, 79 f.
- Gerald P. Schaus : Geometric vase painting. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 935-938.
- Johannes Schwind: Orientalizing vase painting. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 23-26.
- Matthias Steinhart : Black-figure vase painting II. Outside table. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 276-281.
- Michael Kerschner, Irene S. Lemos (Eds.): Archaeometric Analyzes of Euboean and Euboean Related Pottery. New Results and their Interpretations. Proceedings of the Round Table Conference held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens, April 15 and 16, 2011. (Supplementary booklets to the annual booklets of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 15), Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-900305-71-0
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Individual evidence
- ↑ after Penelope A. Mountjoy : Mycenaean Pottery. An Introduction , Oxford University School Of Archeology, 2nd ed. 2001, ISBN 0 947816 36 4 , p. 4, table 1; Pp. 28-30. Thomas Mannack gives 1030-1000 BC For the dating of Sub-Mycenaean ceramics to: Thomas Mannack: Greek Vase Painting. An introduction. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 66.