This article is about the Greek artist. For Eirene, the personification of peace and wealth, one of the Horae, see Horae. Eirene or Irene was an ancient Greek artist described by Pliny the Elder. She was the daughter of a painter, and created an image of a girl that was housed at Eleusis. During the Renaissance, Boccaccio, a 14th century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris (Latin for On Famous Women). However, in this telling Boccaccio apparently conflated many of the women described by Pliny and attributed many more works to Eirene.
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[Greek] The Greek personified goddess of peace and wealth. Irene was portrayed as a young woman with a cornucopia, scepter, and torch or rhyton. She is one of the Horae. Famous is the marble statue of Cephisodotus (ca. 380 BCE), which shows Irene with Plutus on her arm.
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