( fl c. 525–c. 500 BC). Greek vase painters. The group is named after five hydriai with kalos inscriptions praising Leagros. Its artists formed the last major group of Athenian Black-figure painters of large vases; they generally favoured shapes with broad surfaces suiting their large-scale compositions. Thus, of more than 400 vases attributed to them, about half are large hydriai with flat shoulders, or neck amphorae, the remainder mainly being other amphorae and kraters, as well as lekythoi. Like most contemporary artists, the Leagros group painters framed their compositions on large vases with patterned borders. However, they abandoned the hitherto common animal frieze below the body pictures of hydriai, replacing it with palmettes framed in scrollwork or loops, an already established Red-figure pattern. Indeed they sometimes even replaced the ivy trails, which commonly flanked paintings on contemporary Black-figure hydriai, with palmettes.

Part of the Vase painters family

• Leagros group
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(iii)(b): Pottery materials and techniques: Forming the vase
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(d): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 520–c 480 BC
  • Vase painters, §II: Acheloos Painter