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Between 425 and 350 BC Kabeiric vases were the main black-figure style in Boeotia. In most cases this was a hybrid form between a kantharos and a skyphos with a deep bowl and vertical ring handles, but there were also lebes, cups and pyxides. They are named after the primary place where they were found, the Sanctuary of the Kabeiroi near Thebes.
The term Kabiria Group (also Kabiria vases, sometimes spelt Kabeiria or Cabeira) describes a type of Boeotian vases decorated in the black-figure technique. The term can also be used describe the artists producing vases of the type. Kabirian skyphos. Procession to the sanctuary of the Kabiria, from Thebes. Mystai Painter. Late 5th, early 4th ...
The name given to the group by modern scholars is a conventional one, derived from a series of name vases. The Leagros Group was the final important group of Attic vase painters in the black-figure style to paint large-format images on vases. Their significance is so great that their time of activity is also known as the Leagros period.
The Painter of the Dresden Lekanis is the common name for a vase painter of the Attic black-figure style, active around 580–570 BC. He emigrated to Boeotia and is in fact identical with the Boeotian Horse-bird Painter. His conventional name is derived from his name vase, a lekanis at Dresden (Inv. ZV 1464).
Late Geometric hydria, circa 700/675 BC. Paris: Louvre.. Boeotian vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting.Since the Geometric period, and up to the 4th century BC, the region of Boeotia produced vases with ornamental and figural painted decoration, usually of lesser quality than the vase paintings from other areas.
This black-figure amphora, painted by the potter Nikosthenes, displays a Grecian boxing scene similar to the one depicted on the Boeotian Dancers Group's Kothon, Black Figure Tripod. Decorating the third leg of the tripod are two men facing each other with their arms raised in a fighting position, suggesting they are engaged in the athletic ...
Early black-figure skyphos-krater, front side with swans, back with spiral ornaments and swans’ heads, ‘’circa’’ 630 BC; found at the Vourvas tumulus in Attica, National Museum, Athens. The Painter of Berlin A 34 was a vase painter during the pioneering period of Attic black-figure pottery.
Attic black-figure volute krater, known as the François vase, ca. 570-565 BCE. The François Vase, (or François Krater), is a large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style. It stands at 66 centimetres (26 in) in height and was inspired by earlier bronze vases. It was used for wine.