Boeotian vase painting

The Geometric vase painting of Boeotia was rather lifeless and distinctly provincial, especially in comparison to the advanced produce of Attica.

The Geometric style was followed for an extended period by the so-called Subgeometric, before orientalising vase painting became dominant.

There was also some experimentation with added colours, mainly red and white, and also, to some extent, with figural motifs (animals and humans).

Influences came mostly from Attica and East Greece, than from the true centre of orientalising pottery, Corinth.

At times, distinction between or ascription to the two areas is difficult, some material can also be confused with Corinthian vases.

Boeotian red-figure vase painting flourished between the second half of the 5th and the first decades of the 4th centuries BC.

Late Geometric hydria , circa 700/675 BC. Paris : Louvre .
Symposion scene on a kantharos by the Boeotian Dancer Group , circa 560 BC. Louvre .
Kabirian skyphos . Procession towards the sanctuary of the Kabiria . Mystai Painter . Late 5th/early 4th century BC.
Artemis in a chariotin, on a kantharos by the Painter of the Great Athens Kantharos , circa 450/425 BC. Louvre .