Burgon group

Panathenaic amphora , around 565/560 BC Chr.

The group of ancient Greek painters designated by the emergency name Burgon Group worked in the middle third of the sixth century BC. In Athens . The artists in the group were representatives of the black-figure style of vase painting.

Pinax of the Burgon Group: Prothesis , Paris, Louvre CA 255

It got its name after Thomas Burgon (1787-1858), who supervised the excavation of the group's early price amphora London, British Museum B 160 in 1813 in Athens.

The group, which has been grouped together in modern research due to stylistic similarities, achieved particular significance because it was the origin of the earliest surviving Panathenaic price amphora ( Burgon vase ). This is also the group's name vase . On the front the goddess Athena , who is common for such amphorae, is depicted, on the back a two-horse chariot running. Another well-known work is a siana bowl on which a sowing, which may have a mythological background, can be seen. The group is stylistically close to the painter from London B 76 .

Web links

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literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p.
• John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 40.