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Eirene

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Eirene or Irene (Greek: Ειρήνη) was an ancient Greek artist described by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century. She was the daughter of a painter, and created an image of a girl that was housed at Eleusis. One of the five or six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147-148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Irene, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias, and possibly Calypso. During the Renaissance, Giovanni Boccaccio, a 14th-century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris (Latin for On Famous Women). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eirene is the 1,234th most popular painter (down from 1,167th in 2019). (down from 2,404th in 2019)

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Among painters, Eirene ranks 1,234 out of 2,023Before her are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Georg Pencz, Azim Azimzade, Lucien Simon, Alfred Stevens, and Franz Roubaud. After her are Hans Bol, Kateryna Bilokur, Carl Blechen, Georges Mathieu, Thomas Hill, and Aleksander Gierymski.

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Among people born in 200 BC, Eirene ranks 58Before her are Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia, Agathokleia, Teutobod, Ariarathes V of Cappadocia, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella. After her are Valerius Antias, Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, and Hegesias of Magnesia.

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