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Eirene (artist)
Eirene or Irene () was an Ancient Greece, 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 (Pliny), Natural History'' (XL.147-148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Irene, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias, and possibly Calypso (painter), Calypso. During the Renaissance, Giovanni Boccaccio, a 14th-century humanist, included Eirene in ''De mulieribus claris'' (Latin for ''On Famous Women''). Some of the paintings he credits to Eirene are an older Calypso, the gladiator Theodorus and Alcisthenes, a famous dancer. See also * Women artists Sources References

*Pliny the Elder. ''Naturalis historia'', XXXV.40.140, 147. *Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. ''Women Artists: 1550-1950''. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976. {{DEFAULTSORT:Eirene Ancient Greek ...
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Eirene may refer to: * Eirene (artist), 1st-century Greek artist * Eirene (daughter of Poseidon), in Greek mythology * Eirene (hydrozoan), ''Eirene'' (hydrozoan), a genus of hydrozoans in the family Eirenidae * Eirene (goddess), the Greek personification of peace * Eirene (moon), a moon of Jupiter * Eirene (Rome character), Eirene (''Rome'' character) * Eirene of Montferrat, Byzantine Empress consort * Eirene Mort (1879–1977), Australian artist and writer * Eirene White, Baroness White, (1909–1999), British politician See also

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De Mulieribus Claris
''De Mulieribus Claris'' or ''De Claris Mulieribus'' (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. It is the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature. At the same time as he was writing ''On Famous Women'', Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men,'' De Casibus Virorum Illustrium'' (''On the Fates of Famous Men''). The famous women *1. Eve, the first woman in the Bible *2. Semiramis, queen of the Assyrians *3. Opis, wife of Saturn *4. Juno, goddess of the Kingdoms *5. Ceres, goddess of the harvest and queen of Sicily *6. Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy *7. Venus, queen of Cyprus *8. Isis, queen and goddess of Egypt *9. Europa, queen of Crete *10. Libya, queen of Libya *11 and 1 ...
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Greek Women Painters
Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC) **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD) *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD *Greek mythology, a body of myths o ...
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Ancient Greek Painters
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BCAD 500, ending with the expansion of Islam in late antiquity. The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages vary between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. During the time period of ancient history, the world population was exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full prog ...
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Linda Nochlin
Linda Nochlin (''née'' Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. As a prominent feminist art historian, she became well known for her pioneering 1971 article " Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" published by '' ARTnews''.Nochlin, Linda. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" ''ARTnews'' January 1971, pp. 22-39, 67-71. Early life and education Linda Natalie Weinberg was born to a secular Jewish family, the daughter of Jules Weinberg and Elka Heller (Weinberg) in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the borough's Crown Heights neighborhood. She attended Brooklyn Ethical Cultural School, a progressive grammar school. She received her Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Vassar College in 1951, her Master of Arts in English from Columbia University in 1952, and her Ph.D. in the history of art from the Institute of Fine Art ...
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Women Artists
The absence of women from the canon of Western culture, Western Art history, art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and experiences, and contributed inspiration to the feminist art movement in the United States, Feminist art movement. Although women artists have been involved in the making of art throughout history, their work, when compared to that of their male counterparts, has been often obfuscated, overlooked and undervalued. The Western canon has historically valued men's work over women's and attached gendered stereotypes to certain media, such as Textile arts, textile or fiber arts, to be primarily associated with women.Aktins, Robert"Feminist art."''Museum of Contemporary A ...
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On Famous Women
''De Mulieribus Claris'' or ''De Claris Mulieribus'' (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. It is the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature. At the same time as he was writing ''On Famous Women'', Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men,'' De Casibus Virorum Illustrium'' (''On the Fates of Famous Men''). The famous women *1. Eve, the first woman in the Bible *2. Semiramis, queen of the Assyrians *3. Opis, wife of Saturn *4. Juno, goddess of the Kingdoms *5. Ceres, goddess of the harvest and queen of Sicily *6. Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy *7. Venus, queen of Cyprus *8. Isis, queen and goddess of Egypt *9. Europa, queen of Crete *10. Libya, queen of Libya *11 and 12 ...
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio ( , ; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian people, Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the 14th century, fourteenth century. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. His most notable works are ''The Decameron'', a collection of short stories, and ''De Mulieribus Claris, On Famous Women''. ''The Decameron'' became a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian styl ...
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities. Prior to the Roman period, most of these regions were officially unified only once under the Kingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC. In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Three centuries after the decline of Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze Age collapse, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and the colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included the Golden Age of Athens and the Peloponnesian War. The u ...
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Calypso (painter)
Calypso, also known as Kalypso, was a supposed Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek painter who lived in the 3rd century BC. She is known from a mention in Natural History (Pliny), Pliny the Elder's Natural History along with several other prominent female painters. She is one of the six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147–148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Eirene (artist), Irene, Calypso, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias. During the Renaissance, the 14th-century humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, Boccaccio included Calypso in ''De mulieribus claris'' (Latin for ''On Famous Women''). Account by Pliny The standard Teubner edition of Natural History (Pliny), Pliny the Elder's Natural History mentions the painter Calypso in the following passage from the 147th chapter of its 35th book: Scholarly debate The exact reading and grammar of Pliny's mention of the painter Calypso is subject to debate. In his account, a listing of several female names is given in ...
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Iaia
Iaia of Cyzicus (), sometimes (incorrectly) called Lala or Lalla, or rendered as Laia or Maia, was a Greek painter born in Cyzicus, Roman Empire, and relatively exceptional for being a woman artist and painting women's portraits. She was alive during the time of Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC). In ''De Mulieribus Claris'', his book of women's biographies, Boccaccio refers to her as "Marcia," possibly confusing her with the Vestal Virgin of that name. According to Pliny the Elder: "No one had a quicker hand than she in painting." Most of her paintings are said to have been of women. Pliny attributes to Iaia a large panel painting of an old woman and a self-portrait. She was said to have worked faster and painted better than her male competitors, Sopolis and Dionysius, which enabled her to earn more than them. Life Born in Cyzicus, Iaia was a famous painter and ivory carver. She probably came to Rome to meet the demand for art there in the late Roman Republic. Iaia remained ...
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