Burgon Group

The designated with the Notnamen Burgon group group of ancient Greek painters worked in the middle third of the sixth century BC in Athens. The artists of the group were representatives of the black-figure style of vase painting.

It was named after Thomas Burgon (1787-1858), the B 160 supervised the excavation of belonging to the group early amphora London, British Museum in 1813 in Athens.

Of special importance was the group that was summarized in the modern research due to stylistic similarities, in that of her comes the earliest surviving Panathenaic amphora ( Burgon vase ). This is also the Namenvase the group. On the front of the usual for such amphorae goddess Athena is depicted on the back of a two-horse carriage at the races. Another well-known work is a Sianaschale on the seeding, which may have a mythological background, can be seen. The group is stylistically close to the Painter of London B 76.