Leagros Group

Hydriai by the group resemble those by the Antimenes Painter, feature more widely flayed lips and shallower broader shoulders.

Such patterns are rare in black-figure vase painting, but very popular in the red-figure style contemporary with the Leagros Group.

Thus, the Leagros Group artists demonstrate the strong points of the black-figure style, while the contemporaneous Pioneer Group show the possibilities offered by the newly introduced red-figure technique, veritably indulging in details of anatomy and clothing.

The group's artists profit particularly from innovations in terms of perspective and spatial depictions, although they use them rarely.

Some motifs were newly introduced by painters of the Leagros Group, others depicted and interpreted in new ways.

Although similar changes took place in red-figure vase painting, the two developments should probably be seen as separate, in spite of the possibility of a degree of mutual influence.

John Boardman sees them exist side-by-side, Heide Mommsen suggests a major degree of interaction.